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It's Called About.com for a Reason

Thursday August 14, 2008

Every once in a while I ask the readers of About.com First Aid to tell me how it's going.

The idea of About.com First Aid is provide readers with information to inform and entertain them. We want you to come here when you have questions about first aid, safety, emergency preparedness, first aid products, natural disasters and much more. If we don't have it on the site, or if you aren't sure that we've answered your question, I encourage you to email me with questions.

Of course, I get many more questions than I can answer. I try to answer frequently asked questions first. For times when I can't get to a reader's question, there is another resource. The About.com First Aid Forum is a place for those interested in first aid, emergency medical care and safety to trade ideas.

Some of you may have experience in the back of ambulance. Others may be first aid or CPR instructors. Still others may be corporate safety officers. If you want to know how to become a paramedic in your state or what safety regulations affect your business, you may well find the information you need by asking for help in the forum. If you're simply a dad floundering in the world of kids and playground injuries while mom is visiting her sister in Massachusetts, the forum is the definitive resource for mom cures to everyday boo-boos.

Basically, I want to know more about what you want to know about. After all, it is called About.com, isn't it?

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Going for the Gold

Wednesday August 13, 2008

I've been watching the Olympics every night this week. I must say it's the only time I've watched badminton on TV. It's a silly sport.

Does anyone else really consider beer-bellied air pistol shooters Olympic athletes? They kind of creep me out.

I can't wait to watch some table tennis, however. We had a Ping-Pong table when I was a kid. It wasn't regulation or anything; my dad just dropped a sheet of plywood across a couple of sawhorses and called it good. We didn't even paint it.

Those table tennis players are true athletes. I'm just in awe of their reaction times. How can anyone not like table tennis? Forrest Gump played it.

I'm not sure if all this athleticism is going to spur some of us potatoes to leave the couch, but just in case it does we should brush up on our first aid skills. The worst time for injuries is during the beginning of your workouts, when you're just starting conditioning.

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