The Medic-Team

Ship: Johnny
Date: 16.12.2024
Position: 14° 29,0’N / 052° 46,9’W
ETMAL: 131 Meilen
Total distance: 2469 NM seit Santa Cruz

On our ship, we have some different teams, each with specific tasks. For example, the trash team, which takes care of the trash on board, the laundry team, which handles the laundry and so on. But I’ve had the luck to be in a very special team, in my opinion. I’m in the medic team, so today I would like to introduce you to our team.

First of all, our team members:

Annal (Anna), 16 years old. Two years ago, she noticed her passion for medicine. Her dream is to become a surgeon. Her favorite medical TV series are “The Good Doctor” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” She is always immediately there (really immediately, like someone addicted) when someone gets hurt, so she can learn something new about medicine.

Our cute Fufu (Flurina), 15 years old. She is going to take educational training to become a media marketer, but she still finds medicine very interesting. She is particularly interested in the medical field of psychology. Her favorite medical TV series is “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Now, our adopted child, Paul. Paul is 15 years old but is actually in the mechanical team. However, shortly after the teams were founded, he sneaked into our group and since then, he’s also one of us. He may want to go into the medical field, but isn’t quite sure right now. Tragically, he never watches “Grey’s Anatomy” or “The Good Doctor”, which is a big disappointment.

Our beloved medic Jakob, who had to leave us in the Cape Verde Islands. He’s a child psychologist and also worked before at a hospital. He was always there for us, even when we were too dumb to use a knife properly in the kitchen, and he lovingly cared for our small cuts. In a short time, he got a big place in all our hearts. At many medic meetings, he told us a lot about medicine and showed us how many things work.

Christian is our new medic, 71 years old. At the age of 25, he noticed his interest in medicine. He worked as a doctor in internal medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy. He was also a surgeon and a development worker in Africa. Now he’s retired but still works a little bit as an expert for the justice system. He doesn’t watch medical TV series, because he would laugh too much about them.

And at the end, me (Nele), 16 years old. In the future, I may also want to go into the medical field. The areas I find most interesting are cancer medicine, pediatric medicine and medical service in the army. My favorite medical TV series is “The Good Doctor.”

What we’ve already learned:

Because of Jakob, we’ve learned many things about medicine. First of all, he showed us the medic backpack. In there, for example, is a stiff neck collar, medicine for emergencies, an oxygen bottle, a manual pump to remove vomit from the throat (for example, when you get seasick and food gets stuck in your throat—thankfully, we’ve never had to use it) and so on.

We also had some meetings where Jakob told us how to properly care for a wound. Because of that, we can now cut beautiful triangles out of plaster (most of the time).

We were also lucky that he spent a lot of his time answering our questions about overdoses, cramping fits, the craziest moments he’s experienced in medicine, contusions and so on. In our last medic meeting, he also gave us a course on knowledge about different kinds of bandages. We learned how to make a pressure bandage and how to use a triangular bandage for arm, knee and head injuries.

Here you can see us at the bandage course and also a way you should never make a pressure bandage.

„Crazy“ medical moments on board:

Luckily, we don’t have many “crazy” medical injuries on board, but we still have Ella and Hannes.

Ella:

• Injury: Knee injury, maybe something is broken under her patella, we will know more in Martinique.
• How she got hurt: She wanted to sit down on a bench and then her knee twisted in a weird way and the patella dislocated.

Hannes:

• Injury: A small fragment dislocated from the right index finger.
• How he got hurt: We sat down with a sitting sack on the “Catwalk” (the place where the sails are stored) during some medium-sized waves. He was like: “We will fall in a few seconds.” I was like: “No, there are still three waves left.” But then we fell, and everything landed on Hannes and he got a swollen finger.

Plans for the Medic Team:

Tomorrow, we’ve already planned a medic meeting with Christian to show him what we’ve already learned and our knowledge about the medic backpack.

What happened today?

Today, starboard had class and we got informed that we will write a test about “Vectors” the day after tomorrow. Of course, everyone was highly motivated.

We also had Spanish in the sea garden, which was flooded because of the heavy waves. In the evening, Malte showed us a moon rainbow. It’s quite similar to a rainbow, but it’s made with moonlight. We weren’t sure if it really was one, because they’re extremely rare. Special was also that Noam got his hair cut.

Special greetings for our loved medic Jakob:

Lieber Jakob, wir hoffen, dass es Dir gut geht und dass Du gut zu Hause angekommen bist. Wir vermissen Dich ganz doll und ohne Dich ist es voll komisch hier. Wenn du nicht nach Amsterdam kommst, dann gibt es Schläge (auf süß natürlich). Der erste Brief an Dich ist schon in Arbeit und wird in Martinique abgeschickt. Wir denken ganz oft an Dich 🫀🫀 Dein Medic-Team 🫀

Greetings:

Nele: Ich vermiss‘ euch wirklich sehr, Weihnachtszeit ohne euch ist wirklich komisch. Esst mal ein paar gebrannte Mandeln für mich mit. Ich bin auch kaum seekrank geworden und hab gar nicht gekotzt😌 Hab‘ euch ganz dolle lieb und freu mich schon darauf, bald eure Stimmen zu hören❤️❤️ (Mama, ich hab‘ jetzt ganz ganz viele Sommersprossen🤓)