What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[jennyjj01]

Another pack of batteries

Why do we do that? With vast reserves of rechargeables, we still can't walk past a shelf of alkaline batteries.

Have you done any brand analysis? Home Bargain used to have superb, high capacity alkaline batteries, and I believe Lidl had some unbadged quality Varta ones. Duracell, seem to have been going rubbish, lately.

Which batteries are currently good VFM.... Apart from IKEA Laddas, which are VFM eneloops.

[jansman]

I pick up all sorts,all the time ,batteries included.Back in 2020, when The Duchess was getting over the Big C. we got blindsided by the Lockdown panic buying. Now I have had a heart problem,and nothing will go short! Of course,on top of that is the potential for economic collapse,and most certainly recession/ depression.

And yesterday’s latest equipment,the steel flask from B and M ,has passed with flying colours. I am used to Stanley Aladdin flasks which will stay red hot for a full day. I filled the 1.5 litre job (£12.99) at 9 pm last night. At 5.30 am I came downstairs and made a perfect brew with that stored hot water. That’ll do for me. As well as for stashing water from the Kelly or brick stove in the yard ( if we have to) I needed a bigger flask for my Winter fishing. It’s the Tower brand 1.5 litre double wall stainless flask if anyone is interested.

[diamond lil]

Husband tripped on steps in the neighbours garden and cut his arm on a rusty old bracket. Came home cleaned up and plastered - but then we found a deep puncture wound that had been missed, up under the sleeve of his tshirt. Wouldn't stop bleeding because he's on blood thinners for his heart.. Happened at half 6 and at half 8 it was still bleeding.
Found out that our wee medicine box has pills and ointments for everything short of bubonic plague but not dressing or plaster Ended up cutting an old white pillowslip into strips and sellotaping it onto his arm - felt like something out of the Little House on the Prairie Stopped bleeding during the night, and I'll phone the surgery to ask about tetanus today. And off to amazz to buy a shed load of bandages/plasters/wound dressings and all the rest of it!

[GeeGee]

Diamond lil hope hubby is okay ..your household sounds like mine
Funnily enough my preps were checking up on if we were up to date on medical stuff too
Mr GG still ill fluid on lungs but doc has prescribed antibiotics in front
I went out shopping for superglue for my medical box
I have something called vonwillebrands..brilliant name isnt it
I'm haemophiliac but female so I'm weird
Slight cut and bingo can bleed to death
Usually have a artifical clotting agent administered via drip but since covid its been impossible to get help with it
I'll bleed to death sat haematology waiting for them to find it
Plenty of bandages plasters the lot enough to set up a casualty dept myself ....and superglue
Mr GG fell and cut his finger! The bandages came out and the superglue as hes as bad as me these days with the bleeding
Well it worked
I'm sure I remember my gran gluing my head back together when I fell as a kid

[Frnc]

Husband tripped on steps in the neighbours garden and cut his arm on a rusty old bracket. Came home cleaned up and plastered - but then we found a deep puncture wound that had been missed, up under the sleeve of his tshirt. Wouldn't stop bleeding because he's on blood thinners for his heart.. Happened at half 6 and at half 8 it was still bleeding.
Found out that our wee medicine box has pills and ointments for everything short of bubonic plague but not dressing or plaster Ended up cutting an old white pillowslip into strips and sellotaping it onto his arm - felt like something out of the Little House on the Prairie Stopped bleeding during the night, and I'll phone the surgery to ask about tetanus today. And off to amazz to buy a shed load of bandages/plasters/wound dressings and all the rest of it!

I keep a washing up bowl on top of a chest of drawers outside the bathroom. There's a first aid kit in it. But for day to day minor cuts I have a packet of plasters and tube of antiseptic cream separate, in the bowl. Of course in a case like yours I would have used the dressings in the first aid kit. But my point it I try not to use it unless I need to. I also keep a bag of disposable eye wash baths and a box of saline pods in there, some nitrile gloves and some sterile alcohol wipes and saline wipes. Some of the dressings have expiry dates so I keep those logged on a spreadsheet with batteries, some food items and other things.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Diamond lil hope hubby is okay ..your household sounds like mine
Funnily enough my preps were checking up on if we were up to date on medical stuff too
Mr GG still ill fluid on lungs but doc has prescribed antibiotics in front
I went out shopping for superglue for my medical box
I have something called vonwillebrands..brilliant name isnt it
I'm haemophiliac but female so I'm weird
Slight cut and bingo can bleed to death
Usually have a artifical clotting agent administered via drip but since covid its been impossible to get help with it
I'll bleed to death sat haematology waiting for them to find it
Plenty of bandages plasters the lot enough to set up a casualty dept myself ....and superglue
Mr GG fell and cut his finger! The bandages came out and the superglue as hes as bad as me these days with the bleeding
Well it worked
I'm sure I remember my gran gluing my head back together when I fell as a kid

Might be worth checking with your hematology guy if you can use celox gauze / powder in an emergency..




Mrs A ended up in hospital last night 2 weeks post hernia operation she won't sit still and rest turned out it was her stomach been a prat and she needed strong anti acids (peptac) the only bottle in the entire hospital was out of date.. I wound up jumping in the car and going to the Tesco pharmacy to buy some to take back ....

[Arzosah]

Good grief, that's a lot of recent medical emergencies I hope everyone's okay. The worst I had recently was during my covid bash - I had 2 packets of cough sweets, and the OOD one expiry 2013 was fine but the OOD one expiry 2010 had dissolved into goo Two packs of cough sweet on an order from Boots I'm trying to fill.

[itsybitsy]

I had to throw out 14 tins of tuna. For the benefit of other forum members, the BBE date on tuna is definitely a HARD deadline. Bleurgh.

I've replenished the tins but that's one thing I will be absolutely 100% on top of now - tuna rotation.

I also bought a load of batteries with my T*sco Clubcard points.

[jansman]

Husband tripped on steps in the neighbours garden and cut his arm on a rusty old bracket. Came home cleaned up and plastered - but then we found a deep puncture wound that had been missed, up under the sleeve of his tshirt. Wouldn't stop bleeding because he's on blood thinners for his heart.. Happened at half 6 and at half 8 it was still bleeding.
Found out that our wee medicine box has pills and ointments for everything short of bubonic plague but not dressing or plaster Ended up cutting an old white pillowslip into strips and sellotaping it onto his arm - felt like something out of the Little House on the Prairie Stopped bleeding during the night, and I'll phone the surgery to ask about tetanus today. And off to amazz to buy a shed load of bandages/plasters/wound dressings and all the rest of it!

Is Jimmy ok?

[diamond lil]

He's still living anyway. Got the nurse at 3.30 today and will get her to check his leg too, no visible injury but he can't move it, has to grab his jeans and lift it - must've done something to the hip joint.
We wouldn't win any awards for the healthiest fittest Prepper group in the country this week, would we?