Thanks Folks

[dazthechippy]

I'm a bit low key on this forum but pop in for a read every day, got some food preps at home a GHB in the van and car and a grab bag for longer journeys with a bit of food, sleeping gear that I change seasonally according to the elements and a few other bits, nothing like Zombie Apocalypse, more a bit of self reliance if the systems that support us all have a glitch..

Anyway, my daughter came home in agony a few weeks back after a scooter ride one evening, only went round the block too - she had a bug in her eye, only a small thing, size of a pinhead, maybe a bit bigger. My wife was worried and not sure what to do exactly but was calm...

So, I whipped out my saline eye wahs vials, hosed the daugher's eye down big time over a 10 5 minute period and in the end got the bug out.

Everyone happy !!! - point is i'd of never thought to stick up on eyewash, now its a must have.. my wife sort of thought i was nuts when i bought a biiiig box of them but see's the point now...

Similar thing again last week or so, daughter fell off her scooter, cut her face and hands, I wasn't there this time - had to talk the wife through the immediate actions of would cleansing and care - directed her to the med box and instructed on use (all very basic stuff) and one mended little girl later all smiles.

This saved us a trip to casualty, a journey there and back, a 4 hour wait etc, you know the score....I've only done first aid at work, nothing complex..

Wife then decides (after I asked her weeks ago before these things happenend if she wanted to go on a FA course like St Johns or something) could I teach her some first aid above what she knows - nothing fancy just how to use the stocks of kit we have for cleansing, dressing and sympathy with keeping calm all in the right order.

What I want to say is thanks to my fellow preppers for ideas on what to stock, where and how to store it, rotate and use it.

Cheers to all !!

[Plymtom]

That is what it's all about, taking the sting out of any crisis

[pseudonym]

Another convert, nicely done.

[ParamedicPrepper]

Ban the scooter, sounds like a death trap lol

[Yorkshire Andy]

Ban the scooter, sounds like a death trap lol

oh no no no you cant do that take toys away and the little darlings would then find alternative things to do like climbing up the stairs on the wrong size or play pelt the wasp nest with stones... or Cat hand grenade where you pick up the cat and then throw it at your sibling (yes one was caught last week "playing" that game)


an adequate full and clear risk assessment is needed with all points covered with a tool box talk during dinner time and the scooter can be used again .



Daz locate your nearest MIU (minor injury unit) or NHS drop in centre most have much quicker service than a A&E department

[Deeps]

Good drills Daz, its why we prep isn't it. It sounds like the missus is coming round, I think that's a big step, mine is still a work in progress although getting there.
Hope the wee one is good now.

[diamond lil]

I think with the state of the NHS now that we should all do a first aid course.

[Yorkshire Andy]

I think with the state of the NHS now that we should all do a first aid course.

Then prepare to have a 20 minute argument with the ambulance controller over how "best" to deal with your patient till the blue lights arrive

your "indate" training tells you one thing and her computer screen tells her to tell you something different,, and they are right and you are wrong.... then the front line paramedic tells you that you are correct when they arrive as you have ignored the computer says no brigade


A fair bit has changed in the past 3 years since my First aid at work course

but i would say its well worth going on if ever you get the chance the Emergency first aid at work only scrats at the surface

[Yorkshire Andy]

OH and dont think im hollier than thou with all this first aid stuff.....


walking round the shops on friday night late on and Mini Me starts complaining her foot hurts...

take her shoe off shake it out nothing..

plonk shoe back on


still complaining...

leave shop whip shoe and sock off shake sock and double check shoe... nothing

as i put sock on absolute hissy fit starts...


quick show me where it hurts........

points to heel....

start looking cant see anything so have a light touch and prod...

she screams hits the roof and does what all 4 year olds do and starts screaming ...



so better look theres a TINY splinter in her heel brushing it as we all know hurts / twinges......


so go to FAK in boot and get small foreceps... well we have full blown Paddy and leg thrash session litterally plonked her on the back bench seat and she had a screaming fit for about 3 mins.. let her blow that out of her system ....


so bundle her into car seat and belted in with arms and legs going ... so stern words by the time we get home she has calmed so finest soft toy and blanket we have tired snotty but subduedness ...

try a few times and i cant get a grip of it

she starts getting the arse on again......

so bundle her in the car and off to the local Minor injuries unit......

£3.50 to park the fecking car for upto 2 hours (( prep change in the car = )


so in we go.....

Dr comes to us go to room out with very fancy forceps with very fine tip

she sits on my knee memorised by the "black man with white teeth"

he struggles then breaks the news that he's going to need to dig it out.......

well alcohol wipe went down a treat ohh its cold and smells nice I forced a lie that the magic wipe will stop it hurting ..........

and she sat on my knee watching him pick it out with a very fine needle he was very very careful and he removed it all nice and slowly


One certificate later for been brave later Final stop was Morrisons for a Ice cream ...

No way on gods earth would she have sat still whilst me mum / grandad/ grandma picked at her foot like she did for the dr

[diamond lil]

My god - I thought it was something really serious like a spider in her sock ! cos I would've been doin the same thing if it was!
I'm currently in an ongoing argument with my gp & consultant who refuse to give me an emergency injection kit that everybody in the know says I must have, to stop going into adrenal crisis. I live at 1000ft with only one road in here and out. One mile north is a high open moor that always gets blocked in snow and has snow gates onnit, and the big hospital is a good way off. South of me its a twisty bendy road through hills, and the local hospital is 23 miles down it.
People have told me that paramedics can't give the injection, they aren't allowed to, so we should self-inject before calling the ambulance. It's like going round in circles banging into walls trying to get anywhere.