First Aid Scenarios

Your companion this weekend, a friend of many years, was up early, too, and already had the fire lit and the breakfast cooking.  A full camp-fire early morning special, preparing you both for another day's cycling ... bacon, mushrooms, sausages, fried eggs, beans, and a slice of the best eggy bread ever!  Always planning ahead, the new roll of cling film was there, too, ready to wrap some of the uneaten breakfast to take with you both on the day's 90 mile trip up Scotland's glorious west coast.  The second day of a five day trip, today would see you leaving Oban and heading North,  through Fort William, on to Mallaig for the 6.00 pm, ferry to Armadale on Skye, and finally on to tonight's campsite.  Cold eggy bread and some congealed bacon may not sound appealing, but they tasted great !   The sun continued it's lazy climb into the June sky, and, behind you, the kettle started to sing, always a welcome sound in the morning.

"Tea or Coffee ?"

"Coffee, please, strong and black !"

The whistling of the kettle was quickly silenced as the kettle was lifted from the fire.  Seconds later, a scream echoed around the hillsides of the small bay, and you spun round to see your companion frantically trying to remove the top from a bottle of water.  The kettle had toppled, and, somehow it's entire contents had landed squarely on the back of their hand.  The damage was plain for all to see, and the skin was already starting to blister.