Yeah, give it up, was it a stain or something?
A few years back I was at a retail counter having stuff rung up when the cashier fainted. I yelled for help and went around the counter to check on her. When she was upright I thought she seemed overwrought with emotion and that drove my suspicion it might be hypoglycemia. I had absolutely NO way of determining if she was hypoxic, lipstick hid her lips and nail polish hid her nails. As I was trying to clean a spot on her lips, not being very adroit at removing makeup, she woke up, still over emotional and looking a bit like a clown do to my efforts. Fortunately the EMTs were just walking up and I beat a hasty retreat.
A few weeks later I was back in the store and asked her what was the cause of her emergency. It was a hypoglycemic attack, but she had no memory of me or much of anything else. Advice I wanted to give her is still imortant to consider. When I was behind that retail counter her crash diet lunch was on a shelf which says she had some idea that she might encounter a medical problem.
Maybe this is a little like your mother advising clean underwear on the chance you're hit by a car but in that moment, I was faced with a human factor that could have been very costly. I was out of my depth, this was a young healthy woman working a demanding job and chances were very high that this was not life threatening, but my training is to make no assumptions. And what I feared turned out very true. Like anybody would be in this situation, she was extremely embarrassed intensified by the imposed state of low blood sugar.
Maybe leaving the ring finger with a clear gloss can become fashionable,
LL
