Medical Alert Watch?
My 91 year old mother-in-law lives alone (California) and is in great shape considering her age, but we are very worried about falls. She has had different medical alert devices (phone and...
View ArticleTraveling China->Singapore->China on an American "emergency passport"?
So an idiot at Delta ripped my passport. It's not awful and China did let me in (after 10 minutes and a call to the supervisor), but I am going to go to the consulate to get my passport replaced (I am...
View ArticleEmergency room or not for leg injury while skiing?
I had a bad fall while skiing (on a beginner slope no less!). Pain is mostly right below the knee, not really in the knee itself. Should I go to the emergency room? The EMT at the ski resort said that...
View ArticleEmergency Food Supplies For Wuhan Virus
I live in an Asian city that has a large number of confirmed Wuhan virus cases and am avoiding going out because of that. Help me with emergency food storage and feeding myself? I am a local without...
View ArticleEmergency Contact Person: NONE
I realize that lately I've been disappointed by my family and I have no idea what to do when I have to write in basic questions like emergency contact or arranging caretaker after anesthesia. Is there...
View ArticleInternational emergency situations
Can you give an example in the last 50 years of the U.S. intervening in an international context justified by the declaration of a disaster or emergency? Looking for examples where the U.S. subverted...
View ArticleHow to be prepared for wildfires in SF?
We live in San Francisco. The wildfires are bad and more lightning/fires are expected Sunday night. We have no car and if we did, nowhere to go. What, if anything, should we prepare for? We’re doing OK...
View ArticleFood Poisoning and Getting to Urgent Care
I think I have moderate salmonella poisoning and have spent the last hour and a half trying to stabilize my stomach and bowel. I may need to get myself to an urgent care center or an ER. If I call an...
View ArticleWhat FRS radio should I get?
I want to have a set of FRS walkie-talkies, for use in an emergency. Which ones should I get? People in my CERT team have unofficially recommended Motorolla Talkabout, Midland, or Uniden. I want the...
View ArticleMedically, I am an enigma, to self and countless physicians - Need HELP
IKYNMD - but am out of resources, emotionally and physically. I have no other alternative but to ask for some advice from the hive mind on what this looks like. After a few years feeling really bad on...
View ArticleMy mom needs to go to a doctor. What kind?
My mom (a retired nurse) has not been to a doctor for at least 30 years. She needs to go to one now. Is this an ER, urgent care, or other doctor situation? My mom (72, US) has been very...
View ArticleWhat Belongs In A Go-Bag?
What with the state of the world I've been thinking about fire and flood recently. If I had to get up and go right now, what should go in my go-bag? How do I avoid putting all my eggs in one basket?...
View ArticleWhat’s for emergency dinner?
I’m building my emergency kit and don’t know what to put in food-wise. What MREs, rations, non-perishables, etc. do you have in storage? Have you tasted them and lived to tell? I’m building a kit based...
View ArticleCold packs and other heat-sensitive items for car first aid kit?
When inspecting my car emergency kit, I found all of the instant cold packs already activated... Which was not unexpected, but do any exist that will survive summer car trunk conditions? Similarly non...
View Articleuseful skills for the apocalypse
What skills can I learn that would be useful for myself and for others in a range of emergency situations? The reason I ask is because I wanted to get into nursing school but because of a long,...
View ArticleWhy do I feel like my tampon is leaking when it definitely isn't?
This isn't a question about tampon alternatives. It's just the question it is and mostly a wonder, not a problem. I'm a grown-up, much much closer to menopause than not, and done having children. I've...
View ArticleMedalert devices for falls in home -- anything new?
So today while transferring groceries to my refrigerator/freezer I took another epic fall. The back of my head smashed into one of the open refrigerator/freezer doors and I hit the hardwood floor. I...
View Article[How] Are states helping southern CA for the coming snow?
I think we’ve all seen the damage that a few inches of snow does when it lands in a southern state like Georgia - they don’t have the plows or infrastructure in general to deal with it so it clogs the...
View ArticleHelp shopping for emergency home battery
I'd like to have a large-ish battery that I can use to provide power to my heater in the event of a power outage, but I'm not sure what kind is appropriate. I have one of these Navien condensing...
View ArticleWhat's good stuff to know about cars and emergencies?
I'm leading a troop meeting for my Girl Scouts about car safety and what to do in an emergency. Can you help me brainstorm stuff to include? Hands-on always is better than sitting and listening to me...
View ArticleEmergency 911 service over VOIP for children at home
I am looking for a VOIP service that my 9 year old can use if I'm unexpectedly incapacitated while she's home with me and/or for when I eventually start letting her stay at home on her own while I run...
View ArticleWhat goes in my Important Papers go-bag?
I want to get my important papers in order. I'm thinking I should have the most important in one spot, in a container that I can grab as I'm running out the door. What is that container, and what goes...
View Articlemedical or travel insurance for Canadian traveling to the US
I'm looking into travel insurance options for a teenager with a pre-existing condition that makes it well within the realm of possibility that they'll need to visit an emergency room while on vacation...
View ArticleThere was no need to let it last this long and get this bad.
I messed up. Badly. I was supposed fly from Vancouver to Toronto in about an hour, but haven't even packed yet. Reschedule, right? Unfortunately the depth of my ineptitude makes that more complicated....
View ArticleEmergency Alert Systems
My family has a riverside cabin downstream of a 450-acre private dam, which has repeatedly failed to comply with state regulations, but is given conditional permits to continue. If this dam breaks, it...
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