hello! yoshi

Ok, so just wanted to let people know about how comments are done around here. First of all, if you’ve never commented here before, then your first comment will be held in moderation and it should tell you that. If not, then it comes to the second part of commenting, Akismet. Akismet probably thought your comment was spam and requires me to tell it it’s not spam. This has happened to a few of you recently. Sorry about that folks, if your comment gets eaten and it’s not showing up, please let me know!

Sometimes Akismet gets a bit too excited and flags you for spam. I’m still not sure why, but hey, what can you do. But I can’t do anything unless you tell me that your comment isn’t showing up.

Thank you!

Have any of you heard about this? Apparently, this 44 year old woman with a heart condition was having trouble breathing. She called the flight attendant for some way to get oxygen, but she was denied twice, before the attendant decided to call upon the pilot to see what to do.

They tried administering oxygen to her, but the two tanks they had were empty. Luckily there were doctors and nurses aboard the flight, and they were planning on cutting the flight short and stopping in Florida. The lady was hooked up what could presumably be an AED (Automated External Defribillator), which did nothing. This is not exactly a surprise, since the AED could have been reading her as “normal”, so did not do anything. Unfortunately, the woman did not make it, and was pronounced dead by one of the doctors. The flight resumed their course for New York, covering her body and laying her down in the First Class area. (presumably out of view of course)

So what’s up with this? The oxygen tanks were empty? How is this possible? I would imagine that attendants would have a preflight check, and check these things. I recall when I worked in the ICU, I had to do a Crash Cart check upon beginning my shift. This should not have happened.

It’s conceivable that the lady would have survived if she had been given oxygen. However, without knowing her condition, or the circumstances who can say. This is definitely one for the courts. But I think we can easily blame the Airlines for not having oxygen in those tanks. Unless there are things that I don’t know about in the airline code or whatever.

Do you think the Airlines was in fault?

Please bring your attentions to Pandora, as her grandmother passed away. Send some love and prayers her way please.

After you’re back, come back and read this.

Did you watch the Oscars? I was and wasn’t surprised that No Country for Old Men did so well. I was certain that Michael Clayton was going to be the big winner this year, but I was quite wrong! I of course did not see ANY of the movies, so I wasn’t really rooting for any movie per se.

On a different note, I didn’t really care for Jon Stewart as the host. I think, honestly, that if he wasn’t on there, and there was no host, the Oscars would have been the same for me. It wouldn’t have lost any entertainment value. But, that’s just me. I don’t know why I don’t like Jon Stewart so much, I guess I’m one of those that don’t really find him very funny.

Is it just me?