>>"Were you planning to apply for a job on an ambulance crew?" Blazing Grass asked Ben.
"Hell no," Ben said, shaking his shaggy head.
"Then you don't need the paperwork, you just need the knowledge," Blazing Grass said.<<
Yup. Back when we were founding the Shire (now Barony) of Stromgard, the person who wound up as our Chirugeon (an office that, as I understand is now discouraged by Corporate) wanted to take some EMT classes to be better able to deal with things if something came up.
Turned out that then (around 1980) it was pretty much impossible to take them unless you were going to be a professional.
>>"It's not like I try to," Kenzie grumbled.
"Good," said Blazing Grass. "For some, it is a habit."
"Really?" Kenzie said. "I mean, it keeps happening to me, but I don't go looking for it, people just jump on me."
Blazing Grass sighed. "The pain and the body's response to it can be a compelling distraction from other things,"<<
hoo boy. I *know* that one, not getting beat up, but deliberately triggering some guys in the troop to "pants" me. It was all tied in with my very confused kinks and sexuality. Had to stop when someone helpfully offered advice along the lines of "if you quit doing X, they'll quit doing that to you".
Doing something to get beaten is probably similar but, like, ouch?
The links for the cases are nice though a bit much for me. The 72 hour kit links are ones I've got to visit again sometime. My big problem with a 72 hour kit is lack of transport, lack of carrying capability, and dependency on the availability of electrical power.
I'm fairly well set up for a "shelter in place" scenario, though. Got lots of food that can be eaten "as is" stews, soups, and other canned stuff as well as dried fruit and things.
And I've got plans for the power problem. Gonna get a car adapter for the CPAP (I've got one that'd work, but it's 12VDC to 120VAC conveter which is silly because the CPAP's power pack actually converts 120VAC to 12VDC).
Some digging discovered a made by the manufacturer power cord that'll plug into a lighter jack. And it's like $15.
There's an "official" battery pack for them, but it's lithium ion and like $1100. But there are some others I found while searching for UPSes for the computers, and they're only like $300. Yeah, they're bigger. Not *that* much bigger.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_serpent
(no subject)
Date: 2017-06-30 02:19 pm (UTC)>>"Were you planning to apply
for a job on an ambulance crew?"
Blazing Grass asked Ben.
"Hell no," Ben said,
shaking his shaggy head.
"Then you don't need
the paperwork, you just
need the knowledge,"
Blazing Grass said.<<
Yup. Back when we were founding the Shire (now Barony) of Stromgard, the person who wound up as our Chirugeon (an office that, as I understand is now discouraged by Corporate) wanted to take some EMT classes to be better able to deal with things if something came up.
Turned out that then (around 1980) it was pretty much impossible to take them unless you were going to be a professional.
>>"It's not like I try to," Kenzie grumbled.
"Good," said Blazing Grass.
"For some, it is a habit."
"Really?" Kenzie said.
"I mean, it keeps happening
to me, but I don't go looking
for it, people just jump on me."
Blazing Grass sighed. "The pain
and the body's response to it can be
a compelling distraction from other things,"<<
hoo boy. I *know* that one, not getting beat up, but deliberately triggering some guys in the troop to "pants" me. It was all tied in with my very confused kinks and sexuality. Had to stop when someone helpfully offered advice along the lines of "if you quit doing X, they'll quit doing that to you".
Doing something to get beaten is probably similar but, like, ouch?
The links for the cases are nice though a bit much for me. The 72 hour kit links are ones I've got to visit again sometime. My big problem with a 72 hour kit is lack of transport, lack of carrying capability, and dependency on the availability of electrical power.
I'm fairly well set up for a "shelter in place" scenario, though. Got lots of food that can be eaten "as is" stews, soups, and other canned stuff as well as dried fruit and things.
And I've got plans for the power problem. Gonna get a car adapter for the CPAP (I've got one that'd work, but it's 12VDC to 120VAC conveter which is silly because the CPAP's power pack actually converts 120VAC to 12VDC).
Some digging discovered a made by the manufacturer power cord that'll plug into a lighter jack. And it's like $15.
There's an "official" battery pack for them, but it's lithium ion and like $1100. But there are some others I found while searching for UPSes for the computers, and they're only like $300. Yeah, they're bigger. Not *that* much bigger.