Thank you Granny, I would like to continue contributing if you don’t think I’m trying to take over the thread or something. This topic is brand new to me and I want to learn all I can. I won’t survive more than a week or two in an emergency because of my need for dialysis, but I would like to set up the house so my son and husband could survive for some time if need be.<<<
No, you are not taking over the thread, and I had been thinking of storage food the last couple weeks.
Yes, PLEASE keep posting, it gets boring talking to myself, and this thread is the kind that no matter where you look, on any subject, you will find more than you can post.
I learned the basics at birth, as sharecroppers, got paid once a year and you never got enough to last for a year, so it was make do and do without, or grow your own.
Both of my parents, were savers of stuff, so my junk is honest junk.
It tickled me to tell Scott yesterday, that I had seen an ad begging for Pringles cans, on the Freecycle group, since that was one of the items, thought of as my junk, by the family.
LOL, they are useful storage, for crafts and will make a good soap mold, if you want round bars, pour it, cure it and tear it off, and slice.
Soap, makes me think of big cookies, I in the past used cookie dough that I made and froze. If one packed the dough in a plastic bag in the can, and pulled it out, it would make big cookies, or in quarters, for triangles and would be fine in the freezer.
Your work sounds interesting, I am glad that it was something that you could keep doing, while being sick.
Nor will I last long, if a disaster hits, but the family knows what is here, if they need it.
I am not suggesting in any way that you alter your dialysis.
But have you checked into other herbal ways to help, if you are in a spot, that the dialysis stops?
It is something that I know nothing about, so haven’t a clue as to what I am talking about.
My breathing meds are so expensive that I don’t have a supply ahead of time, but I get some help from Oregano and Lavender Essential Oils, and use it still when the meds don’t do the job.
LOL, guess that I should not be surprised that the doctor who took over when the good one died in an accident, hates to see me coming....I won’t take all the things he dreams up, as he pushes pills and not cures. And he starts frowning when I tell him I use E. Oils.....last time I suggested he do some research, as they are now doing honest tests on them and proving they work, and not just by the E. Oil folks.
Oregano E. Oil kills germs and Lavender is better than any tranquilizer or sleeping pill.....and all I do is smell it, not drink it.
Check the above link for scanners in towns you are interested in.
I listen a lot to the Big Bear scanner at Http://www.bigbearscanner.com
They work well on my dial up, I hear a wide variety of incidents.
As a rule, I listen to Denver and Las Vegas, and the shootings and arson fires are shocking, I am also picking up arson at Big Bear, is the world insane?
Denver and Las Vegas have a lot of kidnapping going on.
It is something that I know nothing about, so haven’t a clue as to what I am talking about.
My breathing meds are so expensive that I don’t have a supply ahead of time, but I get some help from Oregano and Lavender Essential Oils, and use it still when the meds don’t do the job.
LOL, guess that I should not be surprised that the doctor who took over when the good one died in an accident, hates to see me coming....I won’t take all the things he dreams up, as he pushes pills and not cures. And he starts frowning when I tell him I use E. Oils.....last time I suggested he do some research, as they are now doing honest tests on them and proving they work, and not just by the E. Oil folks.
Oregano E. Oil kills germs and Lavender is better than any tranquilizer or sleeping pill.....and all I do is smell it, not drink it.
I went to a naturopathic doctor down in Irvine a couple of weeks ago. He had been a kidney doctor before he started practicing natural medicine. The kidney diet is a bizarre set of foods selected because they are low in potassium, phosphorus, calcium and sodium. I've only had one visit but I am really encouraged. He prescribed a supplement that doesn't mess up the electrolyte balance, an Omega 3 fish oil capsule and melatonin for better sleep. He said the labs were really good and that I might regain kidney function. I'm sure he'd be fine with lavender - as the Jewish moms say, "It can't hoit."
I'll see him next month and maybe we can move into some other areas. I actually have multiple myeloma (cancer of the antibody cells) and that's what caused my kidneys to fail. I have been doing a lot of things to try to kill the cancer cells and perhaps my kidneys will recover.
Thanks for setting up this thread. I love reading your posts, that's why I'm going through the old posts from earlier this year. Once they're all in the Word document, I can read them even if I don't have an Internet connection at dialysis.