Trim Your Nails in SHTF!!!

So rarely do I suffer a debilitating injury. First and foremost, I did not blow my finger off with an M eight. You get a finger injury this time of year. I mean, that's all I could think about, right, But I did. I suffered a little bit of a debility. I say debilitating. It's really not that big of the deal, except it's kind of the crux on what I need to get done over these next couple of days, which really kind of sucks. But there's a lot of lessons here that I want to talk about in terms of medical preparedness. There's a lot of lessons here about KIT There's a lot of lessons here. But before we get into all that, I just have to make this suck announcement that Red Beacon Media is not going to be ready on the fourth. Unfortunately, it is not going to be ready on the fourth. We will not be opening the doors to the world on the fourth of July. And fundamentally that's because I can't type on a computer. I really can't use a computer very effectively with my dominant hand. And there's a big deal, you know what I mean. It is a big part of how I make a living. So I'm trying to take it easy and usher in a quick return to health with this index finger. That is the bad news. Though. The bad news is we're not dropping that. I'm gonna make a video on it. It may be tonight, it may be set some point over the weekend. I'm really trying. As I drive to the store, I'm really trying to take it easy today. Like I've done very little today. I could just call the day off. I guess you know, the boss would let me have the day off for sure, but I could. I could call it the day off and not do anything. But I put some shows up. Obviously, I'm here recording another show. I'm really doing my bed. It's hard for me to stay still and do nothing, you know, in a vegetative state. I can do it with movies and stuff like that in books. But and I did for the most part of the morning. But now we're getting to the point where people are waking up, and you know, I don't know how to explain it. You know, I'm not really a busybody, to be honest with you, I'm not really I'm just a devoted person. You know, people start moving. What's going on? What's up? What do you want to do? What do you need? What do you want? You know what I mean. It's the only way I can put it. Duty calls, you know what I mean, and I like to answer that call. So all that said, trim your fingernails in the Apocalypse, that might be. That might be the title, Trim your fingernails the Apocalypse, and the Red Beacon will not be shining on the fourth. I never experienced anything like this in my whole life. Guys. I was up there at the old magic tire. Conditions were perfection. It was probably one hundred degrees, The tire was hot and heavy and filled with water, and it was it was us. You know, I don't know how to describe it. It was a beautiful disaster, a beautiful nightmare, a beautiful struggle. And you know, those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, there's a big old tractor tire up at a park nearby my home, and I go run that track in the heat, preferably, and flip the tire. And you know, it's really hard to do. It's not an easy thing to do. It's really hard. It's a really great workout, and in the superheat, it's an even better time. It really un gets, like exercise, the demon ball from your body by doing this workout right. So I'm up there doing my thing, done it a million times. You know, it isn't that it's an injury provendevory. I've hurt my back doing it. I've pulled my legs muscles doing it. I mean, it's it's you know, it's kind of a battle. I lifted the tire up a little. I did three successive flips, which is pretty good. It's pretty good per reps, you know. I mean, I don't know if I could do five successive reps. Tires very heavy. It's in the ballpark of four hundred and fifty pounds according to Firestone. And you know the type of tire that it is. So I do two consecutive flips, a third and then no, no, two consecutive flips, and then on the third And you got to understand, I do this move a lot, right, This movement of flipping this tire I've done hundreds of times. For some all I could think is that it must have been the nail, right, It must have been the fact that I have been trying not to bite my nails as much late and I'm having success. But the problem with that is you don't You're not used to clipping them if you bite them all the time. Long story, short man, I lift the tire up a little bit right, and then my grips off, so I just go to lower the tire down right. I guess I did it a little fast. And as I was getting my hand back up underneath of it, my index finger was at just the perfect angle that the weight of this tire, the edge of this tire that I'm picking up, comes down on the index finger. Pop the nail rips from the back up off the finger, like it was. I couldn't understand what happened. I thought I broke my finger. I said, okay, I broke the finger. And I look down and go, oh no, I didn't break the finger. The nail is ripped up out of the back end of the finger. Blood, you know, the whole thing. And and the problem with that situation is as follows first and for the first problem, so it doesn't hurt that bad. Actually it sounds like, oh my god, that's gonna hurt worse than anything. It didn't hurt that bad. It still doesn't really hurt that bad. The initial problem though, is I've never done that kind of damage to my finger before. I've done a lot of damage. I've cut my finger tips off in the restaurant world, burnt them really bad, but I never had that kind of trauma done to the finger. I had to get back home in the heat, which is, you know, it's a little bit of a trek, and so I'm you know, I ripped my shirt off, which I probably should have had it off anyway, it was super hot. I ripped my shirt off. Pressure to the wound, obviously, and you know, above my head, the whole thing, the basics, right head, above heart, pressure on the wound. And then I get my cell phone out because I'm thinking I better call somebody and tell them I'm making my way back because maybe i'll pass out. I don't know. But if I pass out, it's going to be in a hundred degrees and it might be on hot pavement. I don't know. Maybe I'll wake right back up from that, who knows. I don't have a shirt on now, but I was scared that I might pass out. You know, I don't usually pass out from the only thing that I ever well, I don't even really get woozy from this anymore, because I've done it a lot. But I used to get a little woozy when I would have to draw blood. But seeing blood and that kind of stuff doesn't really do it for me. So I wasn't that worried about it. But at the same time, I was like, I don't know, you know, you rip your finger, nail bed from your finger, you know, so like the back of the nail had a massive laceration from where the where the back of the nail ripped out. The bleeding wasn't terrible. But I got home, you know, it was no big deal. I got home, looked at it, knew I was screwed. I knew I was screwed. I didn't know how screwed. I didn't know if we were going to need some kind of surgery. I didn't know what level of screwed I was. But I'm looking at it, going, Okay, this is bad. This isn't gonna be an Like we ore of plans to go to the water park today. I knew that wasn't happening. That's those plans got ripped along with the finger, and then we do, you know, get to the work of repair. Short term, right, I call here, here's another thing, so we'll start with prepper community and or just community, right. And I got to know this guy through prepping, actually in my neighborhood, and he's been a longtime friend. And I call him up and he's a doctor in the neighborhood and I say, hey, this happened, and he said, wow, I've never seen that before. Great, And so I know, I get him on the horn, and lucky enough, he's got time to swing by and take a look, you know what I mean. So he comes over and doctors it up a little bit. The problem was when I took the bandage that I put on off. We'll talk about that in a minute. I started bleeding again, and bleeding a lot. He you know, he busts out my medical supplies, say, leans it up. The one big problem there was a big hole. I didn't have any non sticky bandages. I had opened the last one. My wife opened the last one actually when she was patching me up after I took the bandage off and started to bleed. So I didn't have any of those non sticky ones. And that was that was the big problem. The big problem was here, I am going to clot the wound up again and rip it out again, you know what I mean. But we remedied that. Oh man, I love it. I love love the inability for the average human being to take a shopping cart and put it in the How do you leave a shopping cart in the in the Here's here's what I want to say. Okay, if you leave your shopping cart in the parking lot and you're listening to this podcast, stop listening to the podcast. I don't want you here. Okay, if you can't walk a fucking cart anyway, So let's talk about wrapping it up. Wrapping it up was not bad, even by myself the first time. I had my son's help a little bit. Obviously. I washed it out really well. I didn't put anything, soaped it up, washed it up, rubbing alcohol, which wasn't as bad as I thought. Into the wound. That wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. And then from there we did a band an actual bandage, know it. I folded it over the top of the wound, over the top of the finger wrap that with rolled gauze. By the way, I buy rolled gauze by the case, and I buy the sticky tan adhesive. It's not an adhesive. It's like a crinkly wrap. I love it. It's the best stuff on the market. But it's that sort of tan crinkly bandage that goes around your actual bandaging and holds everything in place a million times better than dealing with medical tape. Right, I've never really had a good experience with medical tape. So when I saw this stuff in action, I said, I gotta get some of that. Wrapped it up. Didn't they even think about splinting it. Just put a big you know, not over the tip and said, we'll wait till Ben sees it. Ben sees it, unwraps it bleeding again, he does, He splints it for me. What else did we use over the top? I think it was another bandage, but it wasn't yet another bandage, but it wasn't the right kind same thing. Gauze, gauze, the rap, then the splint, then more rap, more, uh, you know, the tan stuff. Whatever it's called, it works. I don't know what it's called. It works. Right. So while Ben's doing that, my wife comes home. He's telling her about the situation. I'm telling her about it. She uh, being the great wife that she is. She's like, all right, well we're going to go get it looked at at urgent Care, just to be sure, get a tetanus shot, you know what I mean. All that I'm flipping a dirty the tires so disgusting. When I come back. It's so gross because a lot of times there's like water in it from the rain and people throw their track. For some reason, people see a circle in a field and they go, oh, that's like almost like a trash can. I'll just throw all my trash in it. It's not you know, it's not a good thing. It's a It's a beast of a workout, it is, you know what I mean. I just love it. Okay, to be injured this way from that workout really makes me sad, and it really pisses me off because it's one hundred degrees again. I'd be back up there today because I'm not even sore from it, to be honest, and it was at the end of the workout. But anyhow, now we get to the Urgent Care and I want to talk to you about that too, because there's some products they're worth talking about. One of the first things the guy whips out, which I don't have in my medical kit, and I'd highly recommend it. I'm gonna buy him. I did not buy one. Last night he whips out. We're sitting in a regular old urgent care you know room, and I'm sitting there thinking, are we gonna go? Stand by this sink? Like if this thing starts bleeding, where are we gonna go? He pulls out these little basins. And you've seen them before, you're not thinking about them. But when he pulled them out, I was like, oh, yeah, I know it, of course. So he pulls out the little basin. It's got some warm water in it, and he wants the bandage to come off without ruining the clotting. So he puts some warm water in there, sits the finger in it to get the bandage off without ruining the clot That works perfectly first off, right. Then he brings out this stuff called sergophone sergaphone. Okay, and he says, I got this foam I'm gonna put on there. It'll stop the bleeding. It ain't gonna bleed no more once I put it on there, okay. And I'm thinking he's coming with like a spray foam, you know, like some kind of like super glue or something along those lines. Sergophoam. It looks like a square, it looks like a rectangle of thin styrofoam. He cuts it, it's hard. He puts it on the cut, it starts to soften and then, Uh, that was it. That was the last of bleeding that I saw. I said to him, because I'm always, you know, asking questions about medical stuff when I'm at the doctor, and I'm like, how long shuffle if you think that sergophone has And he's like, oh, that stuff will last forever. Chur ching in my head. So I tell the PBN hosts in the back channel, you buy some surge of foam. It works and it lasts forever. So my recommendation to you if you don't have it. The other thing that I bought was stiptic powder. Stiptic powder. I'd never actually had it before. In my kits. I got a bunch of ways to stop bleeding, but I kind of fell for that quick clock gauze stuff. And I realized looking at my cut and looking at the gauze and going, well, it may stop bleeding, but then it's got to all come out of there too. And that's not gonna work long term. I don't like the quick clock gauze, to be honest with you, I'm not a big fan of that product. The surge of foam really really cool. Look it up, check it out. It's cool stuff. Splint it with a cheap metal splint, metal and blue foam splint. I actually owned several of these. I don't own this kind, so I'm glad I got this kind from them, But we have splints at the house and the medical kit there super cheap man. I guess they're made of aluminum. I'm assuming because they're really easy to bend. But a great thing for finger injuries. He had a really cool I don't know what it's called, but it was a really cool little tool for putting on the gauze wrap that went over the finger. It was a very cool little tool. It looked like it was like a metal cylinder, almost made of wire, made of like thin bars of metal, not wire necessarily, And he put the finger cover over top on the outside of it, and you stick your finger on the inside of it, and then it just applies it when you as you stick your finger through it. All in all, I came away with a with a splintered finger and a teat disc shot. Don't take it off for forty eight hours, he says. And I'm hoping that's the end of the story. You know, I'm hoping that's the end of the story. I'm hoping in you know, I don't know, a week or something like that, I can get get back to really grinding, really using my index finger. You know, I'm not gonna obviously be up there flipping tires in a week, but using the index finger to type into you know, it's such an important digit. Man to lose the index fingers brutal. So that was the medical adventure, you know, that was the medical adventure. I've got pretty comprehensive first aid kid, I've got a first aid cash, I've got I facts and things like that. The reason I wanted to talk to you about is the you know, the non adhesive, non adhesive absorbent bandaging that is not that is smooth. It's the smooth, shiny bandages. You may want to check your kit for those, make sure you got those on hand. Maybe stiptic powder or surge of foam if you're interested in something like that would be a good addition for you. Uh, what else really came up yesterday? Oh? I mean yeah. It depends on your relationship with medical tape. Like I said, this is a prep that I changed probably a year ago almost, and it was just one of those things. It was like these I seen it with my dogs. You know that they would use it at the vet. They wrapped the dogs. Uh, would get a needle and stuff like that. Instead of putting tape on them, they put this tan. It looks like an a spandage, but it's it. The crinkles make it stick to one another. Right, it's per It's amazing. I love it. It's ten times better, twenty times better than medical tape in my opinion. You know that the adhesive can't wear out, you know, and all you have to do is wrap it and you're good boom. It's probably more expensive than medical tape, but you know you can buy I think I bought a case in for like in the teens off of Amazon. Really nice to have a point of reference in an injury like that, right, I like, no, duh. Nice to have a doctor in your group. But let's take prepping out of the picture. It is really nice, especially nowadays since Obama Care wrecked, like personal medical doctor relationship. I don't know if you know you have a physician or not. I haven't had a physician since Obama. I'm urgent care or er, you know what I mean. Because our doctor went the way of a lot of doctors back then and went to private practice with a with a fee for the month, you know, month to month fee to use them, then a fee to see them. And you know, that happened in two thousand and eight when I was twenty two years old, and as you can imagine, we weren't in a position to be like, yeah, let's get this nice privatized doctor thing going on. Communism is great. I love Obamacare, so you know, you just had to do that, suffer that, get that first hard lesson in life on the powers of communism and how it ruins everything and uh it. But what was nice was to have that point of reference, to have that single point of reference in a buddy who's the doctor, to at least come over and take a look and say, well, the good news is blank or the bad news is blank, and this is my next step recommendation, and you know, all that kind of stuff. So you know, even if you have a nurse in the neighborhood, or if you have a doctor, if you have some you know, big deal. Big addition, he had a blast. He also practices wilderness medicine, so he had fun with, you know, the splinting process, something he doesn't get to do a whole lot of and all that so pretty cool. The bad news, of course, is I'm kind of sidelined for a little bit. It's bad news for you, it's bad news for Red Beacon, and it's bad news for the book that I'm writing right now as well. Well. I'm hoping I did a little bit of typing today. It's not bad. I shouldn't be typing today because I can feel the ache in the wound itself, so I'm gonna try to try to keep off it. We will still have our great Fourth of July all day twenty four to seven situation that I was putting that together earlier today too, you know, on this day that I'm not doing anything and relaxing and healing, I was putting that together. It looks great. A lot of patriotic imagery, and of course the great speeches, the great shows, the great music, the drum and the fife, all those things. You've come to expect on the fourth of July, twenty four hour stream. Look for that at Rumble, look for that at X look for that. I may put that thing on Instagram. Actually yeah, why not look for that on Instagram? And uh yeah maybe kick maybe we'll do look for it on Rumble. At the very least, I can't live stream it direct to the podcast anymore, so I apologize for that. I'll wake up and make sure that everybody has access to links. But probably the best spot to look would be Rumble. Go find us over there, selfer Liance and Independence at Rumble. What else, well, I could throw the player up in pb at Pbnfamily dot Com, I could do that. Yeah, go to Pbnfamily dot com up, throw the player right up in there. I think that might be about it, folks. That might be about it. I do have another show i'd like to do. I don't know if I'll get it done today or not, but it's a yeah, there's a lot of good deals out there. I'd like to talk to you about them. There's a lot of great deals out there for the fourth good discounts on our sponsors, people who aren't our sponsors, just great companies in general, you know, and I'd like to do sort of a prepper focused deals show on what's available out there for those of you who are looking to spend some prepper dough. Well, thank you so much for everything, folks. I do apologize, truly apologize. I'm dying to show you what we've created over at Redbeaconmedia dot com, this sort of new phase in the PBN multiverse. And yeah, for the members, I'll likely put out a video of me sort of traversing the website in the back, on the back end and show it off a little bit so you get a peek. And for the rest of you, you must be patient. Talk to you soon, folks. Thanks for everything.