JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for September 17, 2023

So, everyone in the family is a hero.

Nurses are the real stars. Many thanks to all of you.

Anyone recognize the play?

Glad they believed she could perform CPR.

MESSAGE!

I dont think that’s how cpr and recovery after work.Unless that’s gum she spat out after giving him the ‘kiss of life’ and he was choking…

They must be performing Sondheim’s Into the Woods (there are whole blogs devoted to things going wrong with Milky White the cow—sometimes an actor sometimes a puppeteer…)

I used to be a volunteer usher in a local theater maybe half the size of the one shown here. There was always a seat set aside for a nurse, and there was a nurse in the audience for every performance. And we were reminded of that at every pre-show briefing.

Looks like Marcy just got herself a standing ovation.

Hopefully no encore to follow..!

That looks like the Academy of Music, built as an opera house in downtown Philadelphia. I’ve performed in there on the stage. Went to plenty of Philadelphia Orchestra concerts there, too.

Good job, Marcy!

From the cheap seats to the stage before anyone else, I don’t think so.

If he comes around during CPR, you don’t help him up. Put O2 on him, then put him on a stretcher and take him to the hospital. If he needed CPR because of a blockage that came out during compressions would be about the only reason to help him up.

Death of a Saleman

I am glad for all nurses and doctors because when you need one there is no substitute.

Big productions like that ALWAYS have a medic standing by. That said, you can’t tell me there’s not ONE doctor in an audience that size. THAT said, NURSES ROCK!

That could be my wife. She’s a nurse and has to qualify every 3 months for CPR training. She aces it everytime so I’m good if I start choking and hopefully she’s there to help

Joe being a police officer I’d think he would know CPR as well. Still a great strip today!

To honor all the selfless nurses who have helped keep a lot of us alive.

That one gave me a lump in my throat

Brava!

CHURCH!

I was once a fully qualified Combat Lifesaver. I saw a terrible traffic accident ahead. I just happened to have my Combat Lifesaver Kit in my personal Jeep. The paramedics said I saved two, perhaps three, peoples’ lives. They sued me. Even though I did everything right and got a Soldiers Medal for my actions, the Insurance Company settled. Never again. They can bleed out for all I care.

Another tribute to first responders.

Love it. Nurses don’t get enough credit.

Heroism is innate in Marcy.

HHHHHHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLLLOOOOOOOO NNNNNUUUUUURRRRRRRRSSSSSSSEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. Suddenly she’s famous.

Joe is a police officer. He probably knows CPR too.

CPR? Doesn’t save as many lives as you think…

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But CPR doesn’t save as many lives as the media would have you think…

“But the true odds are grim. In 2010 a review of 79 studies, involving almost 150,000 patients, found that the overall rate of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest had barely changed in thirty years. It was 7.6%.”

A standing ovation… Take a bow, Marcy! You totally deserve it.

Heroism, thy name is Marcy.

I’m just glad it wasn’t yet another variation on the old set-up, “Is there a doctor in the house?”

The New Yorker magazine just had an interesting article about CPR.

We did A Christmas Story in Slidell, Louisiana many, many years ago. One night the boy playing Ralphie fell ten feet from his bed on the open second storey of the house set, in the dark almost at the end of the play

He broke his wrist and cheekbone. None of the rest of us on stage knew what had happened because he was unconscious and the only sound was the loud thump when he hit the stage. Eventually we realized what had happened. Fortunately his dad was a doctor and in the audience. The boy’s almost identical brother, who had drilled him on his lines, took over the part for the next couple of shows until our original Ralphie could come back.

THANK GOD…for nurses!!

Our community theater company had a dr IN most of our shows for many years, and boy did we need him. Nothing really major, but a few times he kept things from becoming major.

Cartoonist drawing 100’s of people in one panel! Don’t try this at home kids.

Husband used to be Exec Director of a day treatment mental health program for children (school plus counseling services). He had the entire staff certified for CPR (including himself).

It’s THE LION KING and she saved Scar’s life.

Ah,nuts

Tearing up…

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What a fantastic strip! (Overall as well as this individual Sunday!)