{"id":5196,"date":"2018-12-06T17:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T01:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2018-12-06T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T01:55:59","slug":"more-sur-reality-ochos-rios-jamaica-12-06-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5196","title":{"rendered":"More Sur-Reality \u2013 Ochos Rios, Jamaica \u2013 [12\/06\/2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This, is the story of how I died. Oh don\u2019t worry! This is actually a very fun story and truth be told it isn\u2019t even mine\u2026
\n~ Tangled\u2026
\n<\/em>
\nSo, I died this morning.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry, I came back good as new within the hour J It was all part of a safety exercise. Once in a while the ship has us run a massive emergency drill that simulates what would happen if there was an explosion or a very large fire with a lot of people hurt all at once. So a handful of us volunteered to be victims. We filed into the show room this morning and were all given labels as to what was wrong with us, some of us had broken limbs (one of us was missing a limb altogether) and some of us were just unconscious, I was one of those.<\/p>\n

As I was lying there on the showroom floor, trying to remember not to move, waiting for the medical team to reach me (unfortunately they didn\u2019t reach me in time, hence why I \u201cdied\u201d this morning) – I found myself in a unique position to observe \u2013 or at least listen \u2013 to how people react to trauma, even imaginary trauma.<\/p>\n

When we first started the exercise, people were not really taking the whole thing all that<\/em> seriously; there were two \u201cconscious\u201d victims up on the stage, at first their calls for help were rather light-hearted, almost non-sensical. Nothing that serious. But as time went on and no one came to help us, those calls for help? They got panicked, they started to feel almost real. Even though logically we all knew<\/em> that this was just a drill, that there was nothing wrong with us. Our dancers didn\u2019t have missing limbs and broken legs, and I wasn\u2019t actually slowly stopping breathing\u2026<\/p>\n

Nothing quite like hearing someone from the stage say\u2026<\/p>\n

I think Shaughnessy\u2019s gone already\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Your mind paints odd and amazing pictures in a circumstance like that. I was very aware of everything around me, even though I was not moving, lying there with my eyes closed. I was aware when each of my fingers started getting cold, when my neck was stiff, when they moved my head a little too hard.<\/p>\n

There were many things going through my head while I was lying there; but one thing that bounced around a lot was that if this was a real<\/em> situation. If this had really<\/em> happened in the show room and I had really been there. Then I wouldn\u2019t have been alone, because unless he was completely unable to move himself \u2013 there is no way that Amras wouldn\u2019t have found his way to me; and done everything possible to figure out how to make me all right.<\/p>\n

That helped, as I lay there idly contemplating my own mortality.<\/p>\n

And I remembered a lot<\/em> of what my Dad taught me about first aid. I actually knew<\/em> big chunks about how to fix what was wrong with me! Which really surprised me, because I thought I\u2019d long since forgotten all of that. But I couldn\u2019t exactly jump up and down and say \u201chey! Someone should really be giving me mouth to mouth, there\u2019s a mask right over there!\u201d \u2013 because I was supposed to be unconscious, so instead I was more lying there thinking \u201cwell, I could have a blocked airway, and I know how to fix that, or I\u2019m pretty sure I know how to fix that\u2026.but I\u2019m supposed to be unconscious, so I will just lie here and be dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a very strange morning\u2026<\/p>\n

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