What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
no problem, I haven’t read it in a year and this was not something on my mind when I had two hospitals down the street from me in the US. I took it for granted that they’d always be open or staffed or that I’d have “insurance.”
Where I am now, there’s no 911 or paramedics or whatever to speak of so, yeah , couple suture kits and intramuscular antibiotics … I wish I had some goodies in case I mess around and piss off some Africanized bees or get bit by a snake or something. I encountered a massive nest of those in central Texas a few years ago which has me a little more nervous about wandering around in the forests or abandoned buildings 3 hours from anything. It’s not paranoia, it’s reality here that you’re on your own in most cases.
But the more I’ve watched things unfolding at home , I think I would reconsider that and maintain the same supplies even if I was in the US. again.
Editing to add: the most useful one , I don’t know if it’s on that list; but it has ended up being silver paste. I fought a fire in my kitchen successfully (old house in the states , long since sold) but got pretty nasty burns. Everything was out and I was slathering up with the silver by the time the paramedics stomped up the stairs. Hopefully you’ll never need that but if you ever need something in your prep kit, you need that.
Excellent addition. I work in kitchens and it's well known that burns get infected worse than any other injury you can get. Silvidine cream was one of the things that opened my eyes to the effectiveness of treatments other than antibiotics, including herbal remedies. I make a garlic-ginger-lemon-honey tea for colds and it's like a nuke for those. We all should have a book called 'The Lost Ways.' It's a treasure trove of information, including herbal medicine. If there is some kind of societal failure, those pharmaceutical medicines are going to run out or expire eventually
Thanks for all the advice! You’ve given me a lot to think about. I forgot about burns and silver, and that is really smart to add that in my medical bag. Your advice reminded me that I do have epipens but I don’t have a pediatric epipen. I’m going to ask my pediatrician or naturopath friend to get me a prescription for it. I also just remembered that I need to get IV supplies. We don’t have snakes where we are, but that doesn’t mean we won’t travel to a place that does, so it might be good to have antivenom. I do have a venom extractor kit already. I should also get activated charcoal.
I need to brush up on my skills too. I know how to do infant CPR and adult CPR, start/administer IVs, dress wounds, suture, and do intramuscular shots but it would be wise for me to train others in my family too, just in case. That’s a whole different aspect of prepping that I wouldn’t have thought of without you commenting.
If you have any other ideas I’d love to hear them, because it gets my brain going too!