frostbite
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Post by frostbite on Oct 11, 2022 15:49:40 GMT 10
And no, I don't mean in a compromising situation with the hot swedish chic across the road, or your wife's beautiful blonde bestie. I mean when have you been caught in a situation when you have really needed something that you didn't have? Share your experience with the forum, so we can all learn from it. My case: I'm currently immobile with a bout of gout. My foot is swollen and hurts like hell. I can barely walk, and that involves a heap of pain. I could really use a set of crutches at the moment. An item I've thought about getting several times in the past but never got around to doing it. Butt I will be getting some when I can walk again. And for the docs here, I no idea what brought this attack on. No changes in my diet recently, I avoid all the triggers except hard liquor, and my weight is stable at 85kg. The only good news is a beautiful blonde nurse is moving in with us tomorrow morning for 5 days
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Post by spatial on Oct 11, 2022 17:08:24 GMT 10
Apparently I had gout about a year ago, no amount of ice etc had any effect. Took 3 months and many pharmacy's in different towns to get prescription filled, one pharmacist gave me over counter meds Aleve an anti inflammation, that worked ok. I now keep some in my main vehicle, early dosage is much quicker recovery. I need to get a lot more for my preps.
Was a cub scout many years ago and was tasked in clean-up day to clean trash from a local river. There was some junk in the river they wanted to pull out, they gave me a rope to tie to it, very embarrassing had no knot skills. So later asked my dad how to tie a knot, he gave me an encyclopaedia out of the bookshelf, so I taught myself how to tie every knot in the book.
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Post by dadbod on Oct 11, 2022 19:44:39 GMT 10
haha, dont get me started on crutches. I have bought and then donated about 4 sets over my football career. I always swore that i wouldnt need them again, and donated them to the club. then injure myself again and have to hobble to a chemist to buy another set. Its funny, I have finished playing footy, but have kept my 5th set in the garage.
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frostbite
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Post by frostbite on Oct 11, 2022 20:20:33 GMT 10
I bought a set of crutches tonight. Now for a second set for the retreat.
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Post by Tim Horton on Oct 11, 2022 21:37:53 GMT 10
With my hips, knees, ankles maybe not getting worse, but certainly not getting better... I keep a cane in every vehicle..
Also I keep ski poles for walking sticks on the front porch and in every building as I will get tangled up in tall grass or uneven ground.. A good thing my big brother, the karate expert, taught me how to fall down without hurting myself..
Now I need to fabricate a bracket onto the tractor to better carry a walking aid of one kind or another..
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Post by Stealth on Oct 12, 2022 7:00:26 GMT 10
I haven't been massively caught out yet. Touch wood. But I CAN relate a story where being prepped in a way that I never have been before saved my butt.
Many years ago, I got a couple of pairs of shoes. The shoes were known for the soles falling off because the glue wasn't strong enough, and despite the fake welts they weren't stitched on. My soles never fell off because I wore them so infrequently so I thought I'd dodged a bullet on that one. There was a period to return them and get them replaced but that had ended years ago. That should indicate why I thought I was safe... And a perfect example of normalcy bias.
A decade later, cue a morning where I had to wear them and was in a rush to get to work. Step out of my car aaaaaand... Sole of my shoe flops down. S#!T!!! 🤣 I wasn't laughing at the time, but thinking about it now cracks me up. I got into the backpack in the boot of my car with my emergency kit and pulled out the holy grail. A fresh tube of superglue. Glued the sole back on. Stood still for about five minutes hoping like hell that it would hold (and getting some really odd looks from people heading into work in the carpark!) and then proceeded to walk very gingerly into the office. Thankfully I had a change of clothes with me so after I got the morning's festivities out of the way I got changed and furiously piffed the offending shiny slipper into a skip bin. Without that glue, I would have had to go home and pick up another pair of shoes and I'd have been late to work. I wouldn't have been in the doghouse but it would have been frustrating and I'd likely have either caused delays or missed the morning's gig. It wasn't the perfect solution because the shoes couldn't be saved. Not with superglue at any rate! But it got me through the time that I needed to get through and that was all I needed.
If it weren't specifically for getting into prepping and following a few handy lists on what to include in an EDC/Get home bag, I would never have had superglue in my car. That's the story I tell whenever someone is ridiculing prepping because most of the time non-preppers don't realise that we don't necessarily prepare for the end of the world. We just prepare for life.
That's why I go through other people's EDC/GHB/BoB lists every three to six months. Someone might have an idea that seems obvious to them that I've never thought of.
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Post by rastus on Oct 12, 2022 13:41:56 GMT 10
Whilst your thinking of crutches, consider a wheel chair as well. I brought one for the stores thinking of it as a way to quickly move injured or sick around the property as needed. It has (unfortunately) been used multiple times already by the extended family. As for the gout, from a fellow sufferer try using "painaway" ointment. It is utter quackery, snake oil, old wives remedy... but somehow it works for me when the gout gets to stage where cutting off the foot seems preferable. It could be placebo effect, but I thought it was utter BS when trying it for the first time, I was just desperate. (embarrassing too, as I had mocking a family member who had been urging me to try it for years...) Prevention? You know the drill about avoiding purines like the plague, but try sour/tart cherries or their extract. Not regular cherries, they have to be sour/tart ones. We get the extract but also planted half a dozen trees to ensure future access. I start taking the sour cherries or extract at the first sign of swelling or redness (pre-gout). It has been years now since I got more than pre-gout redness/swelling, and I eat a lot of purines (lentils and beans especially). Edit: one other thing, don't let your extremities get cold when you have pre-gout redness/swelling. Gout is tiny tiny crystal shards of uric acid forming inside your joints (that is why it hurts like hell) and the reason it happens mostly in the feet or hands is because the crystals form quicker in the cold. Further reading on cherries: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510330/
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Post by frostbite on Oct 12, 2022 13:56:04 GMT 10
Rastus, I have an attractive blonde nurse staying with me for a few days who has made it abundantly clear that she's keen to insert a suppository that apparently stops gout attacks almost instantly. Mrs Frostbite is at work till 9pm, so blondie needs to get me fairly drunk before then if she thinks she's going to achieve her goal. My money is on mission failure.
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Post by rastus on Oct 12, 2022 14:00:45 GMT 10
Rastus, I have an attractive blonde nurse staying with me for a few days who has made it abundantly clear that she's keen to insert a suppository that apparently stops gout attacks almost instantly. Mrs Frostbite is at work till 9pm, so blondie needs to get me fairly drunk before then if she thinks she's going to achieve her goal. My money is on mission failure. Well if the suppository is big enough, you will forget all about your gout for a few minutes at least.
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Post by malewithatail on Oct 12, 2022 14:05:18 GMT 10
"Now I need to fabricate a bracket onto the tractor to better carry a walking aid of one kind or another.."
"Now I need to fabricate a bracket onto the tractor to better carry a rifle of one kind or another.."
u gets what u pay for. If you want first quality oats, well, they cost, but oats that have already been through the horse, they are a bit cheaper.
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Post by rastus on Oct 12, 2022 14:55:27 GMT 10
A good thing my big brother, the karate expert, taught me how to fall down without hurting myself.. My late grandfather was a different breed, he got through the depression with bare knuckle prize fighting. His advice to us kids was "when you get hit or fall, pretend to be drunk". And even though we were too young to drink at the time, we knew exactly what he meant... as he was always falling over drunk. The only part I am not sure about was whether passing out and urinating is optional or required.
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Post by frostbite on Oct 12, 2022 15:30:51 GMT 10
Rastus, I have an attractive blonde nurse staying with me for a few days who has made it abundantly clear that she's keen to insert a suppository that apparently stops gout attacks almost instantly. Mrs Frostbite is at work till 9pm, so blondie needs to get me fairly drunk before then if she thinks she's going to achieve her goal. My money is on mission failure. Well if the suppository is big enough, you will forget all about your gout for a few minutes at least. They are about the size of a .22lr cartridge. Indocid 100mg.
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Post by bug on Oct 13, 2022 7:24:54 GMT 10
Cut up my foot on holidays. No first aid kit in the car. There is now a first aid kit in the car.
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Post by spinifex on Oct 16, 2022 19:32:30 GMT 10
Cotton tips to clean out an itchy ear when way out in the boonies. I now stash them in every pack, travel bag and car console.
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