I wish that I could get by with herbs and teas and other home remedies. It would save us about $250mo after the insurance card gets soaked, and we use generics as much as we can. So far, we can pay it because we dont get out much and dont use CC’s, no car payments, or anything other than just day to day livin.
Then along came other stuff, so I need to start over on the exercises, but I have to take it slow and not overdo it.
I'm going to write a prepper article about this for Survival Podcast where I write articles. The thrust of the article will be what you need to store, if anything, that is readily available right now but you would be incapacitated without it. Take an inventory to determine if there is something you absolutely cannot do without and still function.
I have extreme dry eyes. I put a drop of Walgreens brand eye ointment in each eye before I go to sleep. If I don't do that, the covering over my cornea will rip when I open my eyes, either one eye or both. The eye cannot be kept open due to the pain. It hurts like hell and you will shut your eye or eyes. The eye has to be closed, a bandage put on it and tape used to provide enough pressure to keep the eye shut. It takes three days for the eye to repair itself. I am useless for three days because there is still pain there.
The eyes work together as a pair and when one eye moves, so does the other. If both eyes are closed, the pain from the torn one is not as noticeable because it doesn't move as long as the other one doesn't move, so you end up with both eyes shut as much as possible for those three days.
A tube of the ointment is over $5 and that is the Walgreens brand, the cheapest one. Liquid drops don't work, it has to be ointment to stay on the eye all night. One tube, and they are very small, will last a month and maybe a month and a half. I keep trying to buy two at a time to try to build up a stock, but I can't seem to get enough of them to last a year. I think I have three extras now and that is not enough. I must remember to get more.
My sister-in-law was here and saw me use mine and she has that problem and has had hers rip before, so now she uses that, too, every night.
If power went out and stores were closed for many months, I could not function without that ointment and right now, those tubes of ointment are just across the street in Walgreens. I'd like to have 12 tubes to know I've got enough and then not use any of those tubes now. That is over $60 but it also means I function or not.
Is there something available to you right now that you absolutely must have in order to function and it doesn't take a prescription to get it?