Hello Everyone,
Now that the summer is here, many of you will be near some water for your vacation or backyard pools.
It is never too late to wear your swimming vest if boating and if you are in a pool that have a deep water level when you don’t know how to swim.
Every year, many children and adults drown because they don’t take the precautions and use safety gear. I’ve always been an advocate of taking swimming lessons as a plan on your menu as a goal. Personally, I believe it should be mandatory. We all know someone who have drowned and wonder how it could have been prevented.
Believe it or not, some kids tell their friends they can swim and they can’t, when one of the friends, kidding around pushes him or her in the water and that friend drowns. Not funny when you can’t swim to go get them or there’s no one else around to save the life as well. If at the shore or lake, follow the rules. The lifeguards are only there at a specific time, and most lifeguards return to college earlier than elementary schools.
Safety guards around your pools and if you watch the recent news on pool structure is a drowning risk for small children who can climb and stand on the side wrap-around panels and get in. Alarms near your pool is helpful as well as locks with alarms on fences as well as cameras with alarms.
Drinking alcohol at a pool party should be kept to a minimum or none at all.
Personally, I believe that safety preservers should be attached somewhere to the sides of the pool or even hooked inside the pools all the way around for anyone to reach in the event of an accidental fall-and at night-see-in-the-dark lighting/coloring.
I myself, have this fear of water, though I love being near it, but did take swimming lessons at a local college to learn. Two rounds by the way. I have no idea where that fear come from, but I know, once you learn, you have a gift of saving a life and your own, in the event you are in a risky situation.
The money spent to save your life and the life of your child, or anyone, Swim Lessons | Take Swimming Classes | Red Cross is a valuable gift. Just like learning CPR, you never know if you need to use it, but how great to know it! Being a nurse, it is mandatory for me to take this course, and I just loved it. Performing CPR on a Baby, and Adult is different. Yes, to renew my CPR certification every 2 years is not bad as there are changes many times in the program. The American Red Cross and The American Heart Assocation have great programs! You can go online and even read the basis of performing CPR. It doesn’t hurt to know something about CPR until you take this very valuable class. It will be fun and informative. (Just to do chest compressions, which circulate the blood through the body and stimulates the heart to start beat, can be life-saving all alone.) Even when the person responds, they will still need that emergency support of EMT and Hospital to stabilize the person’s condition. You must access the safety of the area, before risking your life-as a precaution.
You can check your area for swimming lessons. It’s never too late.
Until you sign up for swimming lesson, start reading about swimming and swimming safety. Your life is very important!
Tips on learning to swim: https://www.wikihow/swim
by Thelma Harcum
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