re: #122 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)

Some personal news to explain my spotty presence here over the past 3 months. I had to have major surgery last week.

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I ran into a milder version of the same thing yesterday in Weatherford. The wave front hasn’t hit here yet, though there are already plenty of cases. I decided it was a good time to take a look at the first aid and self care section of my emergency stash, an area to which I have not paid a lot of attention. Major procedures are out, of course, but even something like a stubbed toe can become serious if real medical help is not available. Preppers (some of them anyway) do all kinds of reckless, crazy things, like buy surplus field surgery kits. I have actually seen medics sewing up wounds in the field. It was traumatic even for trained and hardened veterans. I can’t imagine that suburban goobers would do more good than harm even trying.