I See How You Are

     I understand a blog with pictures and stories is fun to drop in on.  I have tried to keep my blog light and airy, to keep it an easy read and to guide anyone who wants to further research to blogs and websites on the subject I gloss over.  I get it.  A fun read is a fun read.  If that is what you want tonight, go away!  This is mommy talk.  This is 'do as I say' type mommy talk.

     Get a will.  Anything could happen and it often does when you are not at all prepared for it.  There aren't too many veterans who come home, surrender their weapon and walk off base thinking, gee I am ready to get shot right now.  But that does happen, even to highly trained and skilled veteran's.  It just does.  Get a will, now.

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     Sign a living will.  Any doctor's office, hospital or internet site for free law documents can get you a living will.  Spell out how you want to be treated while you are unconscious and sign it in front of a witness or notary as your state requires.  Get and sign a living will.

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     Designate the person you want to speak for you when you can not speak.  Spell out your wishes.  Sign it.

    Sit down with a notebook and pump your parents, aunts or uncles, any elder for information about your medical history.  Grill them like a steak!  Ask the questions that will be asked of you if you end up in an ER.  Did you have chicken pox, measles, all of the different kinds, mumps, ever had a cold sore, a broken bone, a touch of the flu?  Find out all you can then find out about both sides of the family,, both mother and father and their history.  These questions may not save your life directly, but the answers can keep the pros from wasting time eliminating possibilities.  They can do their job best if you do yours first.

     As, long as I'm telling you what to do, pay your taxes, brush your teeth, do not treat a flu symptom like a cold and tell someone where you keep the living will and medical history.  So, I know my reader ship shifted drastically to nearly none talking about the will and medical history.  I don't care.  I see how you are, and when I said prepare for hard times, meant do what you can now to be ready for times to come.  So, get a will, get your ducks in a row, get your papers in order.  Get your life in order and not just the fun stuff, the grown up paperwork responsible thing to do stuff needs doing too!


   

Get a living will

     Doing some research into waterborne illnesses and have not posted light airy piece on survival.  That's life for you and hard times ahead for someone.  
One of my sons works for a large city storm water management department and often has contact with water run off and lakes that back up their run off pathways. 

He is very good about the safety rules and procedures and always follows them, covering himself in the prescribed gloves and waders etc. 

He is also very sick.  Currently in the hospital with a delirious fever, and other frightening issues I won't detail here.  

As we speak, he has made some steps toward improvement by regaining speech and some lucidity.  This is not a forum for the mother.  

This is where I tell you about the moving conversation i had with my daughter in-law about never knowing what will happen next in life.

I will spare the lengthy details.  You never know what will happen in life.  

One minute you think you are tired because your baby boy has a cold and work is work and you are going back to college part time and so is the wife and bills are not going down and this must be the flu they are talking about in the news.  The next minute you are in the hospital  with a tube up your nose and waiting the results of spinal fluid tests and blood tests and your wife is listening to a doctor say we just don't know, but we can't wait days for the tests so we will treat him for something and hope it helps.

They are good people with food spoiling in the refrigerator, because they are not there to eat it, babies needing diapers, no savings, because new parents just don't and no food stores or back up plan.  Such is life.

These may be the kind of hard times you prep for.  Maybe you prep for meteors or solar flares, but I caution you.  These are the things you are never prepared for unless you make a point to address them now.

Get a will.  Get a living will.  Tell your spouse when to stop.  Tell your spouse you will forgive them no matter what they decide in an emergency.  

Sit down and write down your own medical history.  Have you ever had chicken pox, cols sore, contact with wild animals, bird flu, etc.  These are questions that took two people to answer for one unconscious person.  It should be written down, broken bones, car accidents, childhood reactions to shots....etc.

Get a bit of savings plan together beyond your sick days and vacation days.  You don't know, some blood tests take eight days to get back when they don't know where to start looking.

Get prepared for a trip to the hospital when you can't talk and think what answers will they need.  Share this information and write it down and share the whereabouts of the document with more than one in case of emergency person.  

This is the end of the lesson for today, I have a daughter in law getting a heart cath today, too.  More on life lessons as the will permits to type.

Or NOT to Build a Cold Frame

6 Ft. X 6 Ft. Greenhouse$129.99

For the prepper who has a little cash and a Harbor Freight store nearby, the above was pasted from the Harbor Freight website.  

Village Green® 4-Tier Large Greenhouse

$30

For the prepper who has a little money and a Big Lots nearby,these two photos were copied from www.biglots.com

Village Green® Basic Greenhouse

$20

Now this is probably not the last word on greenhouses and cold frames, but it's a nice update for the prepper who hopes to trade their other skills for building skills!