First Blood
Today at work was the first time I got my ass kicked. We were in the van, coming back home, when one of our residents started pressing on his fingers really hard. We tried calming him down verbally, but it wasn't happening, so we had to pull the van into an empty parking lot and get ready to put him in restraints. This is monumentally more difficult than doing it inside his bedroom. The van had three more of our guys in it, including one resident that gets scared and panics very easily. There's also very little room to maneuvre. The other staff member got behind him and brough his arms behind his back while getting his bag of restraints open. I was trying to talk him down, but then he headbutted me and knocked me into the front seat. Meanwhile, he started bending his arms so that he bent the arms of the other staff member, and he was pretty much trying to break her arm. So I had to jump up and scream in his face while trying to pry them apart while she was screaming from pain. Then while he was being restrained, he took swings at me. I tried holding his hands down, but he would keep reaching for my hands and squeezing them. It was definitely intense. We eventually got him restrained and lying down on the seat until he was quite. After he was quite and calm for 5 minutes, we were able to let him out and go home. The whole ordeal took around 20 minutes. The other staff member got a cut on her leg and an almost broken arm, and I got a headache from the headbutt and a dozen small cuts on my hand. I sure hope the next time this guy freaks out, he does it inside the house where there's alot more space, because I never want to go through that again if I don't have to.
posted by Daniel @ 6:30 PM
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