Tuesday, March 7

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

I talked with Trainwreck today, and managed not to talk about her living situation...much. She even asked what kind of things I've been up to, though she cut me off after a minute. I guess it just isn't interesting enough, it has to be topics about HER life.

At least our conversation didn't ruin my day.

I went to see River, and that was nice.

R told me all about the person who is adopting the rescue horse, Phoenix. It is a woman who is a Liberty trainer as well, and wants Phoenix for her two sons (Phoenix is a biggish pony). It's wonderful news, because Phoenix is not a bombproof babysitter, he is a young, excitable pony. That he is going to a trainer is perfect, and especially one who does Liberty as this is how he is being trained with R. Pretty much a best case scenario.

River did well during our ground work, but was kind of distracted during our riding. Not sure why. I was bareback but using the bitless bridle because I wanted to go back and clarify the difference between a turn on the haunches and a side pass, as he is muddy on that.

Then we did some jogging together around the outside as R was working Phoenix, as Phoenix still needs to get over having another horse moving around while he is in the arena.

I came home and didn't do much. Had a nap (lots of those lately, and I seem to need them even though I'm not that busy).

I learned that the use of a chloroform soaked rag to render someone insensible is an over stated cliche.

Use of chloroform as an incapacitating agent has become widely recognized, bordering on clichéd, due to the popularity of crime fiction authors having criminals use chloroform-soaked rags to render victims unconscious. Nonetheless, it is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform in this manner.[56] It takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious. Most criminal cases involving chloroform also involve another drug being co-administered, such as alcohol or diazepam, or the victim being found to have been complicit in its administration. After a person has lost consciousness due to chloroform inhalation, a continuous volume must be administered, and the chin must be supported to keep the tongue from obstructing the airway, a difficult procedure typically requiring the skills of an anesthesiologist. In 1865 as a direct result of the criminal reputation chloroform had gained, the medical journal The Lancet offered a "permanent scientific reputation" to anyone who could demonstrate "instantaneous insensibility", i.e. losing consciousness instantaneously, using chloroform.[57]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroform

Comments

[sherlockishere]

That's interesting about chloroform. Is that one of the drugs they used to give people undergoing surgery? I have a vague memory of having some kind of surgery as a child (maybe setting a broken bone?) in which I was told to breath in a gas that smelled simply awful. Have no idea what it was!

[gottawonder]

Yes it is, (not sure when it stopped being used) but it had to be administered in a very steady and controlled way to be effective. That's why the article says that the rag soaked in chloroform wouldn't be that useful.

[sherlockishere]

It's funny how that memory has stayed with me. I guess it was pretty shocking to a small child. Even now, when I'm going under anesthesia, I still expect that smell to show up.

[ratunderpaper]

There goes another TV life lesson down the drain.

[cf2princessawnw]

lol If that's not the topic of a book, it totally should be.

[ratunderpaper]

It's going in my NaNoWriMo for sure.

[gottawonder]

Interesting, as a failed attempt, or a criminal who knows that it won't work?

[ratunderpaper]

I've already decided: the main character considers it as a way to facilitate revenge on "someone who done her wrong", but when she researches it and learns that it doesn't work, she finds another method to rob him.