Miscellaneous
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.
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/…
Read MoreFinal Thoughts on Comfort Care Whether Providing First Aid or Not. What’s Next? Cheers!
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…
Read MoreTo Be Intentionally Attentive to Someone Else. That is Comfort Care Summarized to Me. What Do You Think?
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…
Read MoreDon’t Confuse Patronizing as Comfort Care. A Lesson in How to Say Something
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…
Read MoreDo our Spoken Words Matter? I Think They Do! Consider What Jesus Has to Say.
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…
Read MoreComfort-care is First Aid, and Should be an Essential Item in Your First Aid Kit. But What is Comfor-care?
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…
Read MoreTourniquets Can Save Lives! But What’s a Cravat?
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…
Read MoreWhat is a Hemostatic Dressing? Watch and Discover…
What is a Hemostatic dressings? It is a wound-care treatment that can affectively accelerate the clotting process even with some severe bleeding. In most cases it is best to utilize these dressings along with quality direct pressure which I will demonstrate in the next video. Hemostatic dressings are my number 6 on my first seven…
Read MoreA Divine Hemostatic Dressing
And now a word from our sponsor! This video is a pause to my series titled, “The first seven essential items in my first aid kit,” so that you can ponder this thought; What is a divine hemostatic dressing? In this video I’ll offer a brief thought to this question. I welcome any thoughts you…
Read MoreWhat do Buildings and Burns Have in Common?
What do buildings and burns have in common? Well listen and find out. This is the 3rd in Shawn’s series titled, “The first seven essentials to Shawn’s first aid kit.” In this episode Shawn explains how cravats – AKA triangular bandages – can also be used for burn care. Yet the kind of cravat you…
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