Last Friday we went on our first home school field trip.  There were about 65 of us!  We visited the Air Ambulance helicopter that serves our county and surrounding counties.  It was pretty cool.
Although we had seen it before, we had a lot more time to ask questions, etc.

There certainly is not a lot of room in here.

One thing I had not really considered or thought about until able to ask, but often times when they are transporting a child, 90% of the time a parent does not fly in the helicopter. Usually the parents are too much of a basket case to fly in the small helicopter plus if something happened to the patient in route, then who deals with the devastated parent. Then one of the paramedics said that usually when they do fly someone, it takes some time to stabilize the patient at the new hospital so parents usually arrive by car about the time the patient is stable enough to be seen. So, if you ever want a chance to ride along side your child in an air ambulance, you better have your best, calmest face on.

Look at this control panel.....

They also had a robotic man (dummy) that they could practice on. You would turn him on and his eyes would blink, his breathing was very shallow, etc. They can practice IVs, blood pressure and administering drugs. They could intubate him.

Our next field trip is in 2 weeks to a corn maze. We try to have one at least once a month.

I have been dragging the last few days. Some headaches and just achy. One day I stayed in bed until 2pm. That was not helpful from the home school stand point. So, we are currently playing catch up, but one of the great perks of home schooling.

Still enjoying the quiet days!