{"id":21822,"date":"2016-09-24T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21822"},"modified":"2016-09-24T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T17:17:13","slug":"dealing-with-medical-emergencies-solo-when-its-necessary-to-stitch-up-your-own-wound-pull-out-your-own-tooth-apply-your-own-tourniquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21822","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With Medical Emergencies Solo: When It\u2019s Necessary To Stitch Up Your Own Wound, Pull Out Your Own Tooth, Apply Your Own Tourniquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/dealing-with-medical-emergencies-solo-when-its-necessary-to-stitch-up-your-own-wound-pull-out-your-own-tooth-apply-your-own-tourniquet\/\">Dealing With Medical Emergencies Solo: When It\u2019s Necessary To Stitch Up Your Own Wound, Pull Out Your Own Tooth, Apply Your Own Tourniquet<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>About two months ago, I sliced my leg open with a beer bottle. \u00a0I work in a bar, so that was extraordinary in itself, but the depth was. Bone wasn\u2019t visible, but everything else was. \u00a0Luckily, it didn\u2019t bleed too badly. \u00a0My coworkers insisted that I needed stitches, but I just<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/first-aid\/how-to-make-a-butterfly-bandage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0butterflied<\/a>\u00a0the bitch. Maybe I should\u2019ve gone to the hospital, seeing as it took over a month to heal, and I\u2019ve got a nasty scar out of it. \u00a0Still, four weeks and no infection later, I recognize that I scraped by on the bare minimum. \u00a0But, sometimes, that\u2019s all that\u2019s going to be available to you.<\/p>\n<p>I had the luxury of being able to go to the hospital if my pride would\u2019ve just let me. \u00a0But that\u2019s not always a reality. \u00a0Whether because you are too far away from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/survival-md-ebook-review-free-download\/\">medical<\/a>\u00a0personnel or because there are none available, you\u2019ve got to be prepared to deal with your own medical emergencies. \u00a0Now there are some things that just aren\u2019t possible (performing your own open-heart surgery, for example), but you\u2019d be surprised what you\u2019re capable of doing yourself if necessary. \u00a0Below are some tips with dealing with three medical emergencies by yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Mandatory disclaimer: I am not a medically trained professional. \u00a0This guide is for informational purposes only, based on my experiences and best research. \u00a0This knowledge is only to be referred to as a last resort- if you do have access to a medical professional that should be your first go-to, no matter what complex you have about receiving help. \u00a0For the purposes of this guide, you are days or more away from real medical help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing With Medical Emergencies Solo: When It\u2019s Necessary To Stitch Up Your Own Wound, Pull Out Your Own Tooth, Apply Your Own Tourniquet About two months ago, I sliced my leg open with a beer bottle. \u00a0I work in a bar, so that was extraordinary in itself, but the depth was. Bone wasn\u2019t visible, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14376,8745],"class_list":["post-21822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-medical-emergency","tag-survivalist-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21824,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions\/21824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}