Preparedness for when

Hollyberry

short_bird wrote: »

...Popped by to share this:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/18/eat-of-battle-worlds-armies-fed
as it might be useful for hints and tips for the bug out or bug in preps.

Interesting stuff. More MRE info is here: http://www.mreinfo.com/, which gives some rather scary reviews, including ground beef from 1986, which was likened in looks, albeit not taste, to dog food.

My former OH did once point out that there would be no need for a TP stash under a diet of MREs (sorry if a tad indelicate), so you might want to bear that in mind if stocking up.

On other matters, I think we must have been one of the few households to have actually received the medical information opt out letter. [Not a unicorn in sight, though... ] It arrived in the middle of FramFroods leaflets, clearly designed to look binnable. Fortunately that irritated me enough to get me down to my GP to opt out pronto.

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

GQ I can't shake this image of you in a Maid Marion outfit. :eek:
Pineapple got a shock today when she tried to renew her car tax and realised her MOT was expired.
I simply forgot about it melud
Just back from garage clutching her bit of paper. Legal again - phew!

Black yoga trousers, trainers and a black and white tunic top, accessoried by a black headband to keep my hair out of my eyes, a black bracer on my forearm and a big grin.

Lincoln Green is so 12th Century, dahling!

Pollyjuice

GreyQueen wrote: »

I always have them on my person and several months' supply by me, in various places. This I did by filling the prescription as soon as the date came up and, over time, without reducing my dosage, built up a surplus.

I'm having arguments with the receptionist at my GPs. My meds are in packs of 28 but she refuses to let me have my new prescription until the 1st of each month :mad:. I have brought this up with my Dr and she says they should be able to change this. Luckily for me its is not life threatening to miss a day or two. So trying to build up a supply is difficult for me .

DawnW

Pollyjuice wrote: »

I'm having arguments with the receptionist at my GPs. My meds are in packs of 28 but she refuses to let me have my new prescription until the 1st of each month :mad:. I have brought this up with my Dr and she says they should be able to change this. Luckily for me its is not life threatening to miss a day or two. So trying to build up a supply is difficult for me .

To be honest, I would officially complain if you are prevented from having your medicine as it is prescribed. It is not good enough to miss a day or two because of some stupid admin situation. What if it was life threatening :eek:?

GreyQueen

Yes, that's the kind of difficulty you encounter. Unless they can confirm to you that there are 12 lots of February each year, that simply doesn't compute.

My prescription is such a random number that the pharmacist has to open a pkt and carve the tablet strip up with scissors. It should be a round number, my prescription costs just over half of the current charge and I need about 5 a year. Why the GP can't write out a number for an amount divisible by the number in the pkt I just don't know. It's hardly the best use of a dispensing pharmacist's time, is it?

I know my mother is driven to utter exasperation by her GP practice unilaterally interfering with the quantity, frequency, dosage and other things about her repeat prescriptions. It's almost a full-time job keeping up with them.

Howsomever, I do feel more in control for having sorted out the meds and will have to move onto organising the first aid kits. Want one on the lottie for wings and dings, some in the BOB and everyday pack (some in both at present but not properly thought through) plus a general purpose kit for the home.

I find a thing about prepping is that it fosters organisational skills. Such as shopping with one eye on the storecupboard and planning to pick up bargainous things when seen. I want to try this tinned beef from £land and have a loose plan to buy one tomorrow to try before stocking up. And it's good to buy packaged goods from different places and batches.

Partially to preserve OPSEC but there is also the aspect that if there is a defective batch of something and you get a lot of the bad stuff and find out when TSHF and you really need you tins and pkts, that would be very bad indeed.

short_bird

And don't get me started on the packages without days of the week on the foil...

greenbee

Apparently this is legit if you want to opt out of care data and don't have time to drag yourself along to your GP surgery.

https://www.faxyourgp.com/

Someone has obviously put a LOT of effort into putting it together.

Re. prescriptions - I was recently given 2 packs of something because 'we normally do a month at a time, you need 6 weeks and you might as well have spares'. My old GP would have given me two separate prescriptions (she once did that when I needed three months' of critical drugs in one go due to work travel commitments meaning I risked missing repeat dates. Three prescriptions filled on the same day :cool:)

GreyQueen

short_bird wrote: »

And don't get me started on the packages without days of the week on the foil...

Yup, and why can't I get knickers with the days of the week on in my size? Life is busy and confusing and how am I supposed to know what's what without it embroidered on me keks?

I was running on to my Computer Wizard last year on the subject of sox. We were going to discuss s e x but there was a typo somewhere and it all went a bit off-kilter. :rotfl:

The Wiz confessed to having owned a pkt of socks emblazoned with the days of the week and that something weird had happened; when one Tuesday Sock (or any other day) had been lost/ stolen/ holed or eaten by the washer - the other half of the pair suffered an identical malfunction. It was like they had a death wish and couldn't go on without their mate.

He was a bit alarmed by this as, apart from the days of the week, they were interchangable black socks and he was intending to anarchic and wear them UNmatched. The Wiz is a laid-back hippy type who is simultaneously one of the coolest and cleverest men I know, as well as very droll.

I seem to be surrounded IRL with very humorous people, both at work and socially, so it's tough keeping up. I'm still avoiding the gigs of the one who is a semi-pro standup comedian. It's dangerous in those audiences, tha knows.

ETA short_bird, never mind carpe diem, what about carpe jugulum?

metherer

greenbee wrote: »

Apparently this is legit if you want to opt out of care data and don't have time to drag yourself along to your GP surgery.

https://www.faxyourgp.com/

Someone has obviously put a LOT of effort into putting it together.

Thanks GreenBee. I've been meaning to do it, and using that site has taken 2 mins to do. OH also now opted out.

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pineapple wrote: »

GQ I can't shake this image of you in a Maid Marion outfit.

So this is what GQ looks like?

I'm well impressed. :cool: