#Home First Aid Kits

[cookiiemancer]

A new employee walks around while carrying Sun, Moon and Eclipse's blueprints...and can't understand why Eclipse says that they're not supposed to carry them in public.

As a part of the new android integration laws, or whatever it's called, most facilities where robots reside or work are required to carry blueprints and basic manuals with instructions in case of any damage or possible malfunction. They would think it's weird, but that's all. It's the equivalent of somebody carrying an anatomy book.

[macgyvermedical]

Home Nursing Advice Column #6: Home Nursing Kit

You have probably heard of a first aid kit, and you may already have one. First aid kits are pretty much for minor injuries and illnesses, and to get you through the first few minutes of more severe injuries.

This post is not about those. This post is about a home nursing kit. Things you need or would at least want to have while taking care of someone at home long term.

Note that you probably wouldn't need all of this for a home nursing kit if you have one particular patient in mind. But it's good to own some of these things just because you're probably going to take care of someone at some point- be it a child, chronically ill person, or elderly person.

Assessment/Data Gathering Tools:

Stethoscope (and ideally know how to differentiate normal and abnormal lung sounds)

Blood pressure cuff (manual and know how to use it, or automatic- upper arm cuffs are more reliable than wrist ones, but the wrist ones are cheaper)

Fingertip pulse oximeter

Nitrite dip sticks for UTI detection

Thermometer (ear or oral- the glass kind never need batteries jsyk)

Glucometer and test strips

Personal Care Tools:

Nitrile gloves

Urinal (female or male depending on your patient)

Bath basins

A lot of washcloths

Electric kettle for warming up water (mix boiling water with tap water to desired temp in bath basin)

Rinse-free soaps

Leave-in conditioner or de-tangling spray

Bed pads or diapers for incontinence (they both come in both disposable and reusable- even for adults)

Bed pads or draw sheets for positioning

Evaporative cooling towel

Hot water bottle

Ice packs

Pillows for pressure reduction

Nail care kit

Medications:

Person's prescription medications

Acetaminophen

Some kind of NSAID

Aspirin

Some kind of antihistamine

Pill organizer

Pill cutter

Petroleum Jelly

OTC antifungal (like the cream kind for vaginal yeast infections, especially if the person has a vagina or skin folds and takes antibiotics)

Laxatives and stool softeners

Wound Care Tools:

Adhesive bandages

ACE wraps of different sizes

Irrigation syringe or the ability to improvise one

Cloth or paper tape

Gauze pads. Like way more of these than you could possibly think that you could use if you're dealing with literally any wound. Alternatively strips of soft cotton cloth that are boiled in between uses.

Food Items:

Instant chicken stock

Electrolyte powder

Drink mix powders to make water more palatable

Some good milkshake recipes

Some good soup recipes

Overbed tray

[sew-much-to-do]

DIY Emergency Candle Holder

This emergency candle holder kit is made in a mason jar for easy access to a light source when the power goes out in your home.

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sew-much-to-do: a visual collection of sewing tutorials/patterns, knitting, diy, crafts, recipes, etc.

[dykeredhood]

I love being handy and looking after myself!!! It’s fucking thrilling!

[idle-bug]

Genuinely what is the benefit of staying clean? I've been doing this for almost ten years now, I know how to do it relatively safely, and it's the only thing that has never failed me so why would I stop? If my parents can get hammered every other day and ruin my life because of it then why can't I self destruct the way I want?

Why can't I have my vice???

[bogkeep]

"most unrealistic thing about fanfic is how everyone has a first aid kit in their house" WHAT DO YOU MEAN UNREALISTIC. EVERYONE HAS-

[dawning realisation]

ok im back from the store

[floralfairie]

Current playlist.

1. So Please Please Please, Let Me, Let Me, by The Smiths

2. Asleep by The Smiths

3. Morissey “Everyday is Like Sunday”

4. Army Dreamers by Kate Bush (but the really good version)

5. Gigi Perez Sailor Song

6. First Aid Kid- Silver Lining

7. First Aid Kid- EmmyLou

8. Cause Honey I’d Drown for You- Television Skies

9. Jason Molina- No Limit on The Words

10. Hello, My Old Heart- The Oh Hellos

[brenna]

the vibe for april 5th is i worked late, and i'm salty about it. it's i love you; i'm biting you; i sniff you. it's waiting for something, a feeling that never came. we just finished true detective: night country, and it is so good.

[hardtchill]

Christen will be the only reason their kids go to school on time along with their carefully packed lunches.

Yes, but Tobin will make up bed time stories (voices and all), teach them how to swim and will be captain canonball launch in the pool (which Christen will not be able to watch).

[napping-sapphic]

I love coming home to my beloved (cream for the burns on my hands)

[smallest-turtle]

if you want a fun little insight to the vibes of brandon's relationship with his sister you can listen to leaf pile by the front bottoms, i feel exhausted by everyone everywhere, cao dai blowout by the mountain goats, and the pull by now, now . on loop. :)

[dustedmagazine]

Big Blood — First Aid Kit (Ba Da Bing/Feeding Tube Records)

First Aid Kit by Big Blood

Big Blood is a family band, born of necessity. Multi-instrumentalists Colleen Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin started it in 2006 because they couldn’t keep up with the intensive writing-rehearsal schedule of their old band, Cerberus Shoal, as they prepared for the birth of their daughter Quinnisa, but they didn’t want to quit making original music. While they weren’t up for rehearsing and writing prog epics on Cerberus Shoal’s scale, their own pace turns out to have been plenty brisk. They’ve made 25 recordings on their own, not including collaborative ventures with Micah Blue Smaldone, Elliott Schwartz, and Swans. Many of them were self-released CD-Rs of rough-hewn, rustic psychedelia; in recent years, Feeding Tube Records has committed several titles from their back catalog to vinyl.

While Colleen originally handled most of the singing, Quinnisa started turning up on Big Blood’s recordings by the time she was four years old. On their latest album, First Aid Kit, which was recorded when she was 13, she splits the leads half and half with Colleen. Her presence is not a matter of either habit or nepotism, since even though mother and daughter have similar singing styles, each has unique and complementary strengths. If the song requires emotional vulnerability, then you want Colleen at the mic. But if it needs bluster, Quinnisa has the edge. It makes sense; when you need attitude, call a teenager. 

Either way, their voices have what it takes to cut through the music’s ambient haze and put the tunes across. This is a more rocking album than others in Big Blood’s discography, albeit in a home-made fashion that used to get called lo-fi in a time when that term was a consequence of the gear people had rather than the filtering choices they made while recording and mixing with a computer. Everyone in the house plays guitars and drums. Colleen also plays various keyboards, and Caleb adds electronics and tape loops, including traces of some songs’ earlier takes. Recording is done on an eight-track tape machine, which contributes to the music’s aforementioned haziness. Their production has a steam-pressed quality, as though the background instrumental sounds had all been ironed onto the tape. Voices and drums, however, jump out of the mix, which suits the songs’ sturdy hooks. 

The music is stylistically diverse. While the Quinnisa-sung opener, “In My Head,” has a stomping rockabilly feel, Colleen’s “Haunted” and Quinnisa’s “1,000 Times,” with their massed backing vocals and anthemic choruses, sound like 1980s power ballads heard through a wall. And on the closer, “Weird Road Pt. 1,” drifting synths and crooning voices sounds like something Kate Bush might have done if she hunkered down in a drafty cabin in Maine instead of a spendy mansion in England. The mixture of direct, catchy tunes and idiosyncratically filtered production makes First Aid Kit into an incurable case of the ear worms.

Bill Meyer

[imhereforbvcky]

I think my favorite "lol thats not real" TV trope is off-duty medical staff having clean, organized, and mobile first aid kits.

Expansive - oh yes

Useful - absolutely. But only in the most capable hands.

Its less of a neat case and more pf a hodpodge of smuggled and half unlabeled likely expired goods.

The bandages are behind the nail polish and the sterilizing agents are likely expired. Some are in the first aid kit, some in the medicine cabinet, some in the garage bc the spouse is an idiot.

Pain killers are in the medicine cabinets but the good ones are in the bra drawer where the young-uns won't go.

Syringes are in the toy box (minus needles, obvi) bc they make excellent squirt guns in the summer.

Chaotic nurses only in this house.

[happi-tree]

How about 8 and 30 for the music ask!

Bababird, hi!!! Hope you're doing well 🖤🖤🖤

8. A song about drugs or alcohol

Okay I may or may not be cheating on this one bc despite the title it's more about a relationship using painkillers as an extended metaphor rather than being about painkillers themselves buuuuuut I listen to it a lot and I like it a lot so it's getting put in here <3 Just a very laidback vaguely heartbreaking sort of vibe hehe :)c

20. A song that has many meanings to you

I'll go with "Home Again" by First Aid Kit for this one! It has a lot of different meanings to me - one of my first college friends introduced me to it, so it reminds me of them. It also just reminds me of the idea of returning to a place you'd left behind - your hometown, maybe a school, maybe an old friend's house, maybe the middle of nowhere. Similarly, it reminds me of being with the people who are home to you, whether that be family or friends or whoever! It also sounds a bit like a traveling song to me, which really makes me think about how the idea of home (or coming home, or being at home) is such an inherently mutable and personal thing, and we really take a bit of home with us wherever we go. And, of course, it can be applied to many a blorbo as well. Overall, it's a very sweet song that I find myself coming back to often 🥰

[skillofsurvival]

What is Survival Prepping and Why It's Important

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[d0rky-0utfits]

I don't like seeing abandoned animatronics it makes me sad