First Aid Courses & Training - FACT

13/09/2025

12/09/2025

First Aid & CPR Training
(including Anaphylaxis and Asthma)
➡ Delivered every week

Workshops
• Medication
• Epilepsy
• Diabetes
• …and more

📅 Daytime and evening sessions available to suit busy schedules
👥 Small groups welcome
🚗 Yes, we travel – on-site training available

📞 Call Elsa 0488 442 325 to book or enrol today
📧 Elsa@factqld.com.au
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45404

12/09/2025

First aid, Cpr including
Anaphylaxis, and Asthma
delivered every week.

Workshops-
Medication, Epilepsy,Diabetes and
more

Day time and evening sessions
for busy schedules

Small groups welcome

Yes we travel and on-site training is
available

Call Elsa 0488442325 to book
enrol today

E: Elsa@factqld.com.au


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12/09/2025

Let’s get moving!!

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10/09/2025

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07/09/2025

“Happy Father’s Day to all our amazing Dads and Grandads! Wishing you a day filled with love, laughter, and special moments.”

03/09/2025

First aid and Cpr completed in a
session

Practical approach
Certified training

Easy Registration

Small groups - practical and fun
Easy on-line booking
On site sessions offered!!
Weekdays/Evenings/Saturdays

Registration:
Call / message -
Elsa 04 8844 2325
Elsa@factqld.com.au

Book today!!

22/08/2025

Book for training today - yes we do deliver on site!!

06/08/2025

On site training - call to book your teams training - Elsa 0488442325

06/08/2025

Learn first aid and be aware!!!

Garreth Plumley admits life has “thrown him a few curveballs” in the last six months.

The 55-year-old Mackay man has spent seven weeks in Mackay Base Hospital after suffering a stroke in early June, which left him paralysed on his left-hand side.

He had recently finished radiation treatment in Townsville after having a cancerous growth removed from his neck, when he woke during the night on June 6 with a very dry mouth and strange tingling in his leg and arm.

Early the next morning, he realised “something really wasn’t right” when he was unable to walk and couldn’t squeeze a fist or lift his arm.

He knew immediately these were symptoms that indicated he was having a stroke.

“It was surreal. I was thinking, ‘this can’t be happening to me, this happens to other people’,” Garreth said.

“I knew the signs of a stroke – FAST (Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulties and Time to call emergency services), but when it happens to you, you are almost in denial.”

He was taken by ambulance to the Mackay Base Hospital Emergency Department (ED), where tests and a CT scan quickly confirmed the diagnosis.

Garreth, who shared his story to raise awareness about National Stroke Week (4 to 10 August), was fortunate that this timely medical intervention proved life-saving and also played a crucial role in his recovery from paralysis.

After a second CT two days later, he was admitted to the stroke ward for two weeks.

He began daily sessions with a physiotherapist and an occupational therapist, focusing on regaining motor control through neuroplasticity which is the brain's ability to rewire itself. This process was facilitated by focused, repetitive practice of physical activities and other therapies aimed at strengthening muscles, improving coordination and regaining some range of motion in both his left leg and arm.

“The team in the ED and the stroke unit were just wonderful. I cannot praise the OTs and physios highly enough for their attention and care in my recovery. I was just blown away by the medical attention I received,” he said.

“I’ve had to start from the very beginning and learn to walk again as the stroke killed off so many cells in my brain.”

Garreth was moved to a rehabilitation ward and spent the next five weeks working hard to make steady progress and get out of the wheelchair.

He describes the stroke as “life changing” and said that the mental battle was just as tough as the physical one. Discipline and determination were critical elements in his recovery journey.

Read more about Garreth's story here: https://www.mackay.health.qld.gov.au/about-us/news/attitude-of-gratitude-support-physical-recovery-after-stroke

30/07/2025

Piglet:
Pooh?

Pooh:
Hmm?

Piglet:
Do you ever wonder if we’re doing things right?

Pooh:
Doing what right, Piglet?

Piglet:
You know… life. Days. Friendship. All the in-between bits.

Pooh:
Oh. Hmm. I suppose I don’t wonder about it very much. I just sort of… do it. Like eating honey. Or sitting in a sunny spot. Or walking with you.

Piglet:
But what if we’re missing something? Something important?

Pooh:
I think… if we were missing something important, we’d feel a bit hollow inside. Like when you finish your jar of honey and forget you already finished it.

Piglet:
Oh yes. I do know that feeling. It’s a very empty sort of full.

Pooh:
Exactly. But I don’t feel like that now. Do you?

Piglet:
No. No, I feel quite full. Not from honey. Just… from being here. With you.

Pooh:
That’s a good kind of full, Piglet. One you can’t find in a jar.

Piglet:
Pooh?

Pooh:
Yes?

Piglet:
Do you think we’ll always have this? These walks? These talks?

Pooh:
Well, I don’t know about always. Always is quite a long time. But I do know we have now. And now is very good.

Piglet:
I like now very much.

Pooh:
So do I.

They pause and watch a leaf float gently to the ground.

Piglet:
Sometimes I get scared, Pooh. Of change. Of things not staying the same.

Pooh:
I get scared too, sometimes. Like when I reach the bottom of a honey pot and there’s no more in the cupboard. But then, somehow, there’s always another jar. Or someone to help find one.

Piglet:
You mean like me?

Pooh:
Exactly like you.

Piglet:
Pooh?

Pooh:
Yes, Piglet?

Piglet:
If ever I’m not brave, can I borrow some of your brave?

Pooh:
You can have all of it, Piglet. I think you keep some of it for me already, anyway.

Piglet:
Thank you, Pooh.

Pooh:
Thank you, Piglet. For walking with me, even when we don’t know exactly where the path goes.

Piglet:
As long as I’m walking with you, Pooh, I think I’ll be all right. Even if the path goes up or down or somewhere wobbly.

Pooh:
Then let’s keep walking, Piglet.

Piglet:
Let’s.

25/07/2025

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