Originally Posted by
Paolo01
I am NOT questioning your medical qualifications but I absolutely disagree with this statement. When a person is in shock, they default to all sorts of ingrained training or even habits. I have seen soldiers with severed limbs leave a MEDIVAC area because they realized a piece of their gear was still unaccounted for in a destroyed vehicle. I do not know how to explain that medically other than to say that they were in shock. I AM NOT A DOCTOR, so you may dismiss this as medically impossible.
For a civilian i would say that surviving an airplane mishap might create a similar state of shock. Just my opinion and not a medical one.
In that case, you're probably talking about blood loss, which could lead to disorientation from the resulting hypotension. Not the same thing.
At any rate, as far as the luggage lady, I stand by my statement that I would let her have it.