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Water is All Around Us and All Through Us. Yet Many Around the World are Dehydrated. Water Should be an Essential Item in Your First Aid Kit.

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Water is all around us and all through us, yet many people around the world are chronically dehydrated. There are many organizations or ministries seeking to care for those in need of fresh water. If you can help, please do so. https://watermission.org/ Sister Connection also provides care for widows and orphans in a variety of ways. https://sisterconnection.org/…

Final Thoughts on Comfort Care Whether Providing First Aid or Not. What’s Next? Cheers!

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Some final thoughts regarding comfort care whether providing first aid or not. In these final thoughts on comfort care I explore how many of us can be tempted to presume someone is deficient when they are not speaking English as well as we’d like them to. Consider the examples I give and leave a comment…

To Be Intentionally Attentive to Someone Else. That is Comfort Care Summarized to Me. What Do You Think?

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In this video Shawn unpacks, in a concise way, how our words can become comfort care when caring for an ill or injured person. Start with breathing for yourself. Then remember we are all human beings, so it’s good to treat others as we’d hope to be treated ourselves. Comfort care is clearly defined as…

Don’t Confuse Patronizing as Comfort Care. A Lesson in How to Say Something

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In my last post I asked if our spoken words matter. Does what we say matter? I also said, “Whether we believe strongly in free-speech, and I believe we should, the question I often ask myself is not, ‘Can I say that,’ but ‘Do I need to say that?’” This post continues by now suggesting…

Do our Spoken Words Matter? I Think They Do! Consider What Jesus Has to Say.

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Do our spoken words matter? I believe our spoken words do matter a great deal. Matthew 12:36 speaks of the seriousness our words will have on an eternal perspective and not simply on “this present life.” Matthew 12:36 says, “I tell you, on the day of judgement people will give account for every careless word…

Comfort-care is First Aid, and Should be an Essential Item in Your First Aid Kit. But What is Comfor-care?

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I believe comfort care should be an essential item in your First Aid kit, along with cravats, hemostatic dressings, tourniquets, and more. Continuing my series on the first seven essential items in my First Aid kit, I begin to define comfort care in this video by looking at the dictionary’s definition of both words before…

Applying a Tourniquet: Demo and Helpful Info.

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This video completes a trilogy of videos having to do with tourniquets. This video will demonstrate tourniquet placement. These videos are part of a larger series describing the first seven essential items in my first aid kit. Number seven were cravats (triangular bandages), number six hemostatic dressings and number five tourniquets. Remember severe blood loss…

Tourniquets Can Save Lives; Yet I Need Help with Wisdom…

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Tourniquets Can Save Lives! But What’s a Cravat?

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Tourniquets can save lives! But what’s a cravat? Watch, learn, or be reminded. Tourniquets are the 5th item of the first seven essential items in my first aid kit. Tourniquets can bring fear or hesitancy in some assuming the person’s limb will be lost. Others get confused it they can tighten, then loosen, on/off at…

Think CPR When Applying Direct Pressure? Yup!

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Think CPR when applying direct pressure onto a wound? Yup! In my last post I spoke of hemostatic dressings as 6th on my first seven essential items in my first aid kit and even mentioned that my number five would be tourniquets in following posts. But here is an important supplemental video that directly impacts…