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Free? Free is good!
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Free? Free is good!

Free is especially good when it’s a free video course (from Mountain Man Medical) that will enhance your lifesaving skills in an emergency. Don’t forget…

May 25, 2025
It sucks
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It sucks

Really, it does. It sucks when someone you love, in this case Mrs. Freeholder, is sick and all you can do is massage her belly…

May 18, 2025
Potato Chips Anointed in Blood
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Potato Chips Anointed in Blood

So…Mrs. Freeholder decided she wanted burgers and chips for supper. No grocery store chips in the house, but I’m a prepper. We have potatoes and…

June 29, 2024June 29, 2024
The Yuck is a gift that keeps on giving
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The Yuck is a gift that keeps on giving

So… Yesterday morning at 4:30 I woke up, jittery, shaking and anxious for no observable reading. I lay there a minute, taking stock. That list…

May 4, 2024May 4, 2024
Stop The Bleed Month
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Stop The Bleed Month

May is Stop The Bleed Month. Stop The Bleed is a program of instruction aimed at teaching bystanders how to save lives by preventing exsanguination–you…

May 4, 2024
Health Wars Episode V: The Yuck Strikes Back
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Health Wars Episode V: The Yuck Strikes Back

Since I last posted, I’ve gone from feeling better and getting back to it to slowly feeling worse. For the last two days, Mrs. Freeholder…

May 1, 2024May 2, 2024
The Yuck is still yucky but less yucky than it was–plus a teaser
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The Yuck is still yucky but less yucky than it was–plus a teaser

I’m making progress, but it’s slow progress. The NP at the doc-in-a-box declared this stuff to be sinusitis with a side of sinus infection, but…

April 22, 2024April 22, 2024
The Yuck
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The Yuck

It never fails that someone gets some variant of The Yuck at this time of year. This is a banner year for Yuck, as the…

April 19, 2024April 22, 2024
It’s ba-a-ack
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It’s ba-a-ack

The Wuflu (Election Variant) is in da ho-o-ouse! Daughter got it first, this past Sunday and likely from a coworker who had picked it up…

September 2, 2023September 2, 2023
And then this happened
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And then this happened

I finally, 13 days after I tried to break my ankle and only succeeded in spraining it, was able to see the orthopedist. The guy…

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022
This is the last time I’m giving the Guardian Angel an evening off
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This is the last time I’m giving the Guardian Angel an evening off

The subdivision I live in was once part of a farm that dates back into the late 1800s-early 1900s. By the time of the Great…

June 11, 2022June 11, 2022
The migraine thing
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The migraine thing

I’d like to thank those who commented and emailed me about this latest brush with Demon Migraine. Your concern is appreciated. It’s humbling that people…

February 7, 2022February 7, 2022
I learned something today
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I learned something today

I mentioned last week that Daughter and Son-In-Law both came down with the OMGnicron last week. Not a big deal and both were feeling pretty…

January 12, 2022January 13, 2022
Bleeding control when you can’t use a tourniquet
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Bleeding control when you can’t use a tourniquet

A new device, approved by the TCCC, is available for bleeding control in places where a tourniquet won’t work. The iTClamp works by securing the…

December 11, 2021December 11, 2021
Heh
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Heh

I’m off to have a nuclear stress test. Watch this while I get put through the wringer. Report follows if I survive. 🙂 Edit, 6/30/2021:…

June 30, 2021July 6, 2021
Treating pneumonia in an emergency
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Treating pneumonia in an emergency

This is presented for information only. You’d really be better off in a hospital, but what if that isn’t possible? Postural drainage Basics of Postural…

March 6, 2020February 15, 2021
Wuflu Precautions #2
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Wuflu Precautions #2

Liquid preps? Sweet! So the Wuflu is in your area. Seriously, it is. But let’s say it’s a little closer to home than Travis AFB,…

February 8, 2020February 15, 2021
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As if there isn’t enough to worry about

Of course, that’s if one is inclined to worrying. I do my best to not worry. I think the time is better spent getting a…

December 20, 2018February 15, 2021
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Stop bleeding all over my floor!

(Via Michael Bane on Facebook) One of the training points that has come up in the last few years is that “If you carry a…

October 14, 2017February 15, 2021
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The Israeli Battle Dressing

The Israeli Battle Dressing and its imitators are probably the best battle dressings on the market today. They can be applied with one hand (assuming…

February 9, 2017February 15, 2021
5 Minute Prepping Are you OK? Are you alright? Help Medic! Prepping

When a tourniquet is not the thing to stop bleeding

Some years ago, coagulating agents came on the scene. The first I’m aware of was Celox, which did the job but had some downsides, the…

February 7, 2017February 15, 2021
Toward a useful first aid kit
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Toward a useful first aid kit

Everyone has seen and some of us have purchased a pre-packaged “first aid kit”. You know, one of the little plastic boxes with the pretty…

February 4, 2017February 15, 2021
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One more C-A-T video

Here’s the last one I’m going to post, DIY, for an arm.

February 2, 2017February 15, 2021
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C-A-T Tourniquet Lower Exteremity Application Video Tutorial

In keeping with yesterday’s video on applying the C-A-T tourniquet to an arm, here it is, DIY, for a leg.

February 1, 2017February 15, 2021
5 Minute Prepping Are you OK? Are you alright? Help Medic! Prepping

C-A-T Tourniquet Upper Extremity Application Video Tutorial

Tourniquets used to be something that were all but banned from first aid and first responders. Wartime experience has shown that properly employed, they are…

January 31, 2017February 15, 2021

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