Just wanted to say how awesome it is being a WFR! Went to hike chicago basin and wanted to summit all 4 14ers in the basin, after hiking 2 the first day the next morning I was woken up by my hiking partner around 4 saying he was throwing up and he was incredibly short of breath, because of my training I was able to look at his symptoms and although there was no bloody sputum, he was showing signs of HAPE, so we decided to pack up and descend a day early, although the hike down was scary and very tough to get through we made it and I made the descision after getting off the train to get him to the ER because he was not getting better after the descent. Although you never want to have to use your WFR skills, being able to come to life saving conclusions as to whats going on really makes you feel good! Thank you Mattie Rae and Merril Tydings for giving me the skills I needed to help diagnose and take the right steps possibly save my friends life! before taking this course I probably would have been sitting up there telling him I think you just got a cold, lets go up anyways. Im sure once he gets out of the hospital and is feeling better he will consider becoming a WFR himself!
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:14:47 +0000
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