First Aid kits

"VibraJet" wrote in
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"-- Rob" wrote ...
(though in this
particular case the cell phone would have been much more handy) when
stepping
on what I thought was the bank, only to find it was a blowdown
covered in leaves. My leg went down into the fork of the blowndown
tree, and I nearly broke/fractured my leg


Phoning for help is for whiney crybabies, and propably unethical.
Proper streamside etiquette for a badly fractured and punctured leg,
with foot wedged and stuck is as follows:

1. Use belt for tourniquet
2. Amputate stuck foot with pocket knife
3. Cauterize stump with cigarette lighter
4. Take good slug of Scotch to sterilize wound from the inside
5. Hobble out of the wilderness using fly rod for cane
6. As horrified onlookers rush up, refuse medical treatment saying,
"Ahh, I've had worse."

Hope this helps

Timothy Juvenal




Reminds me of that recent story about the outdoorsman who amputated his
own arm because it was stuck, so to speak, between a big rock and a hard
place.

It stuck in my mind, because if it had been me in that situation, I was
sure the boulder would have rolled harmlessly away two seconds after I
finished the amputation.

I suppose that would make me a Schle'mazel.

Scott

Reminds me of that recent story about the outdoorsman who amputated his
own arm because it was stuck, so to speak, between a big rock and a hard
place.

It stuck in my mind, because if it had been me in that situation, I was
sure the boulder would have rolled harmlessly away two seconds after I
finished the amputation.

Well, there is another part of that story that didn't make the
mainstream news. That bolder also caught his groin. Due to the extreme
pain in his hand, he was brissfully unaware of the other damage.

--
Frank Reid
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Reminds me of that recent story about the outdoorsman who amputated his
own arm because it was stuck, so to speak, between a big rock and a hard
place.

It stuck in my mind, because if it had been me in that situation, I was
sure the boulder would have rolled harmlessly away two seconds after I
finished the amputation.

Well, there is another part of that story that didn't make the
mainstream news. That bolder also caught his groin. Due to the extreme
pain in his hand, he was brissfully unaware of the other damage.

--
Frank Reid
Reverse Email to reply

"-- Rob" wrote ...
(though in this
particular case the cell phone would have been much more handy) when
stepping
on what I thought was the bank, only to find it was a blowdown covered in
leaves. My leg went down into the fork of the blowndown tree, and I nearly
broke/fractured my leg


Phoning for help is for whiney crybabies, and propably unethical. Proper
streamside etiquette for a badly fractured and punctured leg, with foot
wedged and stuck is as follows:

1. Use belt for tourniquet
2. Amputate stuck foot with pocket knife
3. Cauterize stump with cigarette lighter
4. Take good slug of Scotch to sterilize wound from the inside
5. Hobble out of the wilderness using fly rod for cane
6. As horrified onlookers rush up, refuse medical treatment saying, "Ahh,
I've had worse."

Hope this helps

Timothy Juvenal

SPLORK!

-- Rob
But... don't they use cane for fly rods?

From: irate


George writes:


Over the years, I've
used every item listed except the finger splint.

Wanna go for a ride?

Hey, if those pedestrians don't like the way you drive, let 'em stay the hell
off the sidewalk. G


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

From: "VibraJet"

1. Use belt for tourniquet
2. Amputate stuck foot with pocket knife
3. Cauterize stump with cigarette lighter
4. Take good slug of Scotch to sterilize wound from the inside
5. Hobble out of the wilderness using fly rod for cane
6. As horrified onlookers rush up, refuse medical treatment saying, "Ahh,
I've had worse."

4a. If the fish are still feeding, quit whining, prop yourself up with a stick,
and get back to fishing.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

"VibraJet" wrote in message
...

2. Amputate stuck foot with pocket knife

This happened last May and there is mention of an angler in the same
information that had to amputate his leg below the knee... I cringe at the
thought....

http://www.traditionalmountaineering..._Lost_Solo.htm

JT

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:32:04 +0200, "riverman"
wrote:

A friend skinned his elbow playing basketball, and came to me for some
antiseptic and a bandaid. He figured I carried some in my vest because of
all those hooks swinging around, etc. Funny thing is that it never crossed
my mind to have a First Aid kit with me while I'm out on the water, but
considering all the times I've fallen trying to hop from rock to rock in wet
waders, slipped on rough ground, face planted into bushes, etc, I think I
ought to.

My question: how many of us out there carry a small first aid kit in their
vest when they're fishing, or in their float tube? How many folks carry them
in their car instead, and how many don't carry anything at all?

And what do you carry in them?

--riverman


German car but I had to get my own kit -- just bandaids in the vest.

Peter

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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:57:57 -0400, Peter Charles
wrote:

German car but I had to get my own kit

German brand or German-made? I got to thinking about it, and IIRC, the
grey-market (grey- to the US, i.e., built for Euro use) cars had a
compartment on the back deck specifically for the kit, whereas the
US-market cars did not. I have no idea what the Euro-to-Canada
requirements are - do y'all have to do things as had to be done to bring
Euro-market cars into the US (new windshield/screen, headlights, door
bars, etc.)?

Peter

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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:57:57 -0400, Peter Charles
wrote:

German car but I had to get my own kit

German brand or German-made? I got to thinking about it, and IIRC, the
grey-market (grey- to the US, i.e., built for Euro use) cars had a
compartment on the back deck specifically for the kit, whereas the
US-market cars did not. I have no idea what the Euro-to-Canada
requirements are - do y'all have to do things as had to be done to bring
Euro-market cars into the US (new windshield/screen, headlights, door
bars, etc.)?

Peter

With a few minor differences, our cars are like US spec. There's a
spot in the trunk for the kit with the first aid cross on the cover,
but no kit. Mine was actually made in Brazil for the Canadian market.

Peter

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