Tea Cup Sweetness
July 20, 2009
beautiful teacup
I have such good friends in my life! A few week’s ago I wrote a story called, “Life Cracks Easily” about how my favorite tea cup had broken into bits (boo hoo) and then a few days later I was on the scene of a terrible bike accident.
When the tea cup first broke I couldn’t understand why but I decided that there must be a good reason. Then only two days later when I came across this woman bike rider fallen on the road with head trauma, I suddenly made the connection – life cracks easily and we need to be aware that every moment is precious.
I have kept in touch with the friend of the woman on the bike. She had some pretty severe injuries, including a fracture in her skull, but she is doing ok and is in rehab. I am going to visit her this week. I have a sense that she needs me, this woman that I’ve never met.
Strangely enough in the past two weeks, I have been on the site of two more accidents. One at our local bookfair when an older woman fell and hit her face. She was ok but blood was gushing everywhere, and even though there was a small crowd of people around her, I felt instinctively that she needed me. I’m not sure why but I just knew it, so I pushed my way in to help her.
The odd thing is that my skills in the healing field are exactly what is needed at these times and I’ve never ever been on the scene of accidents before. But I’ve learned these things about how to help at the scene of an accident:
1. First get as calm as you can yourself. See if you can really breathe and bring your energy down so that you are very quiet inside and relaxed. Everyone else is usually rushing around frantically and that is the last thing the injured person needs.
2. Second is to talk to them calmly and gently. Tell them to breathe and take a few nice deep breaths. Say this in the calmest steadiest voice you can. That will do more than anything. This will help their focus go inside their body, rather than on their pain. It will also lower heartrate and blood pressure. It also puts them more in a proactive state, rather than reacting to the shock of the injury. Don’t say (as one ambulance technician did), “Don’t cry”. That is the worst thing you can do! It actually stops the natural healing process. Geez, I just about decided to go give some training to ambulance techs after this faux pas!
3. Last, if they will allow you to hold their hand or touch them somewhere gently, that seems to help too. But again calm is the key. If you are frantic, your words and your touch will only make it worse so back off!
I’ve successfully calmed and helped three people now. The third was my next-door neighbor who fell down our back steps. When I heard her crying I thought, “Oh my gosh not again” and even though her boyfriend was there, she needed the calming technique as well. She and the older woman are both fine.
But here’s the sweetness to the story. My dear friend Pam who owns my favorite Tea Bar told me that she had something for me. And lo and behold it was a new flowered tea cup with a gold rim. Gorgeous!
I could tell that she really went out of her way to buy it and pick it out just for me. I’m not sure what I did to deserve such a good friend but she really is one. I didn’t even know that she’d read that story on my blog. But after she read it, she went out and got me the cup.
Life is sweet. Life is precious and it should be savored every day with a nice cup of tea. In fact, I’m going to have one right now, a cup of earl grey in my new favorite tea cup.
Take time and savor today.
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