American Red Cross Solano County Chapter

Ok, this was extremely unorganized guys let’s keep it real. Our session went over it’s limit almost a full half hour for the remaining half of us. There were some extremely idiotic staff mbrs helping out, I understand not all of us are up to speed on things but if not direct to someone who can at least pretend to answer the question. This one male volunteer got so rude as to basically call my mother stupid when she wasn’t even asking him for help. Get lost chump, I almost cursed him out but I’m a lady and just told him we didn’t need his input. Yeah it’s free but I think I would have been willing to pay if I knew about some of that stuff because I don’t feel I learned what I should to be able to save someone’s life other than a quick visual run down.

CPR Saturday is a very helpful and FREE class that I think everybody should take, especially if you live with young kids or older adults!
These people know what they are doing and even have fun while teaching you! It was well worth the entire 4 hours we spent. You do hands on work as well as some book work!

CPR Saturday was GREAT!
My daughter Brianna found this event and then recruited other family members and friends. We ended up with a group of 8!
This was held at the King Community Center and it was a sell out event, even though it was free. We came early and had to park on the street due to the number of participants.
Not only did we learn CPR, but we learned about being prepared for a disaster and some other basic first aid. The instructor was extremely funny, especially when he did his little routine about not kissing your victim during CPR and coming at them like a Great White Shark instead (something you definitely have to see).
Thanks Red Cross for a great presentation, great information and the complimentary training manuals and bags. This FREE event was very helpful. I’ll be back next year.
(On a lighter note… when we were practicing «rolling» our victim and it was my turn to be the victim… I think my husband molested me. I had to break out of my «role» and rat him out. LOL. And he said he was adjusting my shirt. Naughty Boy).

ACTUALLY I found the event in the Vallejo Community Activity Guide Magazine that comes in the mail. I think it’s the Greater Vallejo Recreational District, GVRD, mag.
I was aware that the Saturday FREE Cpr and disaster awareness class would have limited space and fill up fast and that there were multiple locations so I shared with
and made it an event (
). 17 people were «in» and 26 said it «sounded cool».
So after a four hour session and testing we were all trained and given certification cards recognizing that we could now perform CPR.
I liked that the main speaker kept the air light and joked often because laughter is one of my favorite things. Also who wants to be up at 9am for 4 hours with strangers and being serious? Not me. So I made my mom and dad, and sister and her friend, and my bff Nancy R. come. Nancy brought her mom and cousin! Yay us!
And if you didn’t pass the test you could talk to someone and basically they wanted to help you so that you DO know if there is an emergency where your skills are needed, exactly what you should do.
So, if anyone needs they can borrow my skills. they’re not nun-​chuck skills or dancin moves but I can tickle ur belly button and then give you the heimlich.
I also appreciated that the Red Cross staff gave us the numbers to call from our cellphone for the Vallejo, Fairfield and other city emergency departments because if you call 911 from your cell phone you will reach CHP… I hope everyone else who attended had a good time!