duties

i started first aiding voluntarily about 1 and a half years ago. Since i started i have covered lots of different duties... i will try and list all those that i remember in this post. 

I try to cover what ever duties are going when ever i can, some of them can be really boring with no one to treat, and nothing to do apart from wait for the duty to end!!! some of them can be so busy and that again I'm just waiting for the duty to end!!!

here are some of the duties I have covered:

• my first duty was a school fair, we didn't treat anyone... but the suspense was killing me. (lasting 5hrs approx.) 
• my second duty was at a 5-aside football tournament... this is one of those boring duties where the guys playing footballs are in their 20s and all try and walk off their injuries, but you get the occasional one coming through asking for an ice pack for their groin strain. (last 6hrs approx.)
• third duty was at a james bond themed concert performed by the london symphony orchestra  at the crystal palace bowl. (lasting 8hrs approx inc. travel time)
  
• my fourth was at another 5- aside football tournament... again very boring. (lasting 6hr approx.)
• fifth was at the prince of whales theatre covering the mumma mia performance, treating nobody all night until on my way home on the train finding a drunk person and giving him a bottle of water. (the duty lasted about 3hrs... but i remember the travel home took about 4hrs)
• my sixth was at the Police (sting and co) concert at twickenham RFU. (lasting 10hrs approx.)
• after this i covered approx 8 Rugby duties at Twickenham RFU. (they each normally lasted approx 8-10hrs)

a dodgy pic of the stadium roof taken from my phone

• next was the Iron maiden concert at Twickenham RFU. (lasting approx 8hrs)
• then a high profile rugby match new castle falcons vs london wasps (lawrence delalios last game) so it was very busy! there was also a youths rugby tournament held there in the morning. (lasted 12 approx)
  
• more recently there was a middlesex 7's rugby tournament held at Twickenham RFU again... quite busy. and lots of fancy dress too!!! (lasted 10hrs approx.)
• last week i was at the REM concert again at Twickenham RFU. (lasted 10hrs approx.)

REM on stage... from the back of the stadium zooming in on my 2.0 mega pixel phone camera 

(unbelievably good quality pics!!! SARCASM??)

• and most recently i was at the phoenix theatre in leicester square providing cover for the blood brothers performance this was very quiet for first aid... although i gave out a plaster!!! (lasting 5hrs 30mins approx including travel time)

as you can probably see i cover lots of different types of duty, these are just the duties that i can remember off the top of my head and they might not be in the totally correct order... but i did try!!!

at the duties such as the ones at Twickenham RFU where alcohol is consumed, sometimes at high volumes... they tend to be busier, than say at a theatre duty where the nearest i have been to treating someone was giving a plaster to the lady sat next to me for the blister on her foot.