Weight Loss Wrap
Personal Submission – 2010
My paramedic partner and I were called to a house one night to an unconscious female who had possibly overdosed on prescription medications. We arrived to find a rather ’large’ girl laying on the floor of the bathroom, non-responsive but still breathing. She had been at a nightclub drinking and had taken some medication in dosages not considered toxic. Despite numerous techniques, I was unable to rouse her to a state where she could walk, so we moved to our stretcher and placed her in the ambulance for a trip to hospital.
Whilst assessing the patient enroute, I attempted to apply the cardiac monitor on her as a matter of course. Needing to apply three sticky dots to the patient’s upper chest and lower left ribs, I raised her top and was dumbfounded at what I discovered.
In an attempt to squeeze herself into the pants she had on, she had wrapped her torso tightly in multiple layers of plastic cling wrap. The wrap extended from just above her hips to just under her breasts causing her to alter her breathing to compensate.
In her present state, the patient was unaware of the giggles between my partner and myself as I cut through the wrap and applied the dots. As everything being held in, fell out and over her pants, we understood why she had given herself a temporary weight loss wrap! We could only wonder over how she might have explained the wrap to a possible beau, had she found one to bring home.
So along with wearing fresh underwear in case you get hit by a car and need an ambulance, your mother should also tell you that wearing multiple layers of cling wrap is a great way to put some fun back into an otherwise dull night on the road!
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