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I remember when my Mum was working for the ambulance service and told me never to offer first aid in the street. What? This went completely against the way we were raised! I mean the first badges we got in both the Brownies and the Guides were the First Aid badges, at my Mum's insistence (everyone else eased in gently with something like the Hostess badge).
Turns out that the paramedics were having to use gloves and mouth-to-mouth masks after a few scares where the patient turned out to be HIV positive. And Mum was worried that we might happen upon the only junkie in Aylesbury and contract it from being a good Samaritan.
I felt a little part of me wilt away back then.
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