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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
One more C-A-T video
Here’s the last one I’m going to post, DIY, for an arm.
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.
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…