Posted on 08/22/2013 6:44:20 PM PDT by Kartographer
Actually, that’s not a bad price at all for 10 individually wrapped packages of Celox. Have you a link?
Just to second post 20 - thank you for advice based on your real world experience!
Two good posts.
5.56mm
Great resources. Thanks for sharing.
What's your opinion of Dermabond?
That will last microseconds.
Celox - 10 packages 32.42 free shipping – this is more than I paid but I might have had to pay postage last time.
There are other products on there that says they stop bleeding but military medics use Celox on the battlefield. I’m sticking with Celox.
If I sterilize the wound with Betadine and use a stapler, I have access to the wound to check it, plus oxygen can get to it to dry it out.
If I use Dermabond there can be problems. You must sterilize well before using it. If you have gloves on when you apply it, your glove can stick to it. If you don't use a glove, you own skin can stick to it. If you drip it on the patient, it sticks where the drip falls.
Can't use it near an eye or mouth.
Once it seals the wound shut, you can't see what is happening to that wound. You wouldn't know an infection had set it until it was bad enough the wound comes open or puss starts dripping from the wound even though it is shut. That would be a bad infection.
You can't use it near a moving part of the body such as an elbow or knee as the tension of the movement will pull it open. Once opened a second time, don't use Dermabond for a second closure.
Please read posts 1 through 27. I made several posts you may want to read and copy.
There aren’t enough cops to prevent 99.99999999999% from doing anything they wish.
Getting out of the city will depend upon the millions of others with the same plan, not because of a few dozen cops. The cops will probably be in the SUV with their family, two dogs and cat trying to pass you on the clogged roads.
I think one has to see it to really believe it happens. Before Hurricane Rita got here, millions tried to leave from Galveston north to Conroe and on to Dallas, and west to San Antonio. Evidently, they thought they would mosey along on the highway and stop for refreshments and continue on their way. So many didn't carry water or snacks. They were caught in millions of cars on the roads that were stopped and they ran out of gas and had no water to drink in the heat. Some people died on the roads.
I know that will happen as surely as day follows night. There will be millions of cars everywhere across the country with dead bodies inside. People caught on the road with no water or food will take it by force from those on the road who have it.
Yesterday, the movie, “The Road” came on and I watched it again. Any road will be a dangerous place in a wide spread emergency that takes out water and food.
I won't be on a road. I'll be in my own country where I am “President for Life”. My country is my townhouse and back garden.
Thanks for the details. I’ll opt for staplers for my kit. Just need to practice on some pigs feet or something to make certain I can actually close a wound without making it worse.
Have plenty of Steri-Strips and use those to close a wound unless it is so large or ripped, Steri-Strips won’t do it. Then, use the stapler. Around sensitive parts, like eyes and mouth, use Steri-Strips unless the wound is horrible.
The most important advice I have for an emergency when there is no doctor, is, DON'T CLIMB. Massive wounds and deadly wounds and instant death can result from a fall from a height. I won’t go into what the wounds are, just DON'T CLIMB. Don’t let kids climb trees. Everyone stay on the ground. Please stay on the ground.
We will be gone long before then.
Nice to have additional options than that, however. It's also *cheaper* to prep if you are storing knowledge or tools instead of just supplies.
Take gasoline, for example. Some preppers have full fuel tanks and some spare jerry-cans filled up. Great! Heavy, but great!
...but what if you could get all of the gasoline that you wanted as you moved around??
To do *that* trick, you'd need a tiny home gasoline refinery.
...and for that, you will need a short section of sharpened rebar, a hammer, a 2 gallon storage tray, 4 empty tin cans, 7 12 inch sections of half-inch pipe, a long length of half-inch rubber and metal tubing, and a glass jar.
You see, long after others have run out of gasoline, their abandoned vehicles with used motor oil in their engine oil pans will remain littering the countryside. More than 500 million such vehicles, in fact.
Coming up to an abandoned vehicle, you dismount, crawl underneath, hammer your rebar into the oil pan, then remove the rebar so that the used motor oil drains into your storage pan.
Then you set up your home refinery.
Use a length of hose on each tap such that your refined product drips into a container, never onto your heat source.
Walla! You can now make your gasoline as you go.
“7 12 inch sections of half-inch pipe” should be “seven 1-inch sections of half-inch pipe”
NEAT!
Marcella, I want to thank you so very much for your contributions to these prepper threads—especially the medical and hygiene info. You appear to be full of calm common sense. I enjoy reading your posts.
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