Octobers Preparedness Information

Please click on the links below for the Preparedness Newsletters.  Also, there is a dried food and StoveTec Stove order form.  Please read the information below or check the order forms to see when those orders are due!  

Preparedness Newsletter

Another Preparedness Newsletter

Dried Food Order

Stovetec Stove Order

Hi Everyone,

Are you Prepared?  This is the title of one of the attachments with this email.  It goes through various items and ideas when preparing for a day when something could happen.  This is just another tid-bit of information with a thought provoking cartoon to go along with it.

I have the StoveTec Stove and Freeze Dried food order forms now available.  As you continue to read you will find the dates when the orders are due.   

For those of you who ordered the Tattler Reuseable Canning Lids, they have been ordered and I will give you a call when they arrive and are available for you to pick-up.

Over the past year I have added several people from other states (Utah, Montana, and Wyoming) that have ordered and/or requested to be added to my email list.  I would like to let those of you who live in Northern Utah and Salt Lake City area that I have a brother who has handled our Utah orders and he has agreed to continue to help me.  So, there is a way to get your product between Idaho and Salt Lake City area if interesed.

FREEZE DRIED Items -  Sweet Corn, Sweet Garden Peas, Banana Slices, and Raspberries (Whole).  A substitute was made on the freeze dried order form, instead of Pineapple Chunks I replaced them with Whole Raspberries.  The price was the contributing factor and the Raspberries are a better price at this time.  The order form is attached, please note: you do not have to purchase a whole box, but if you have family, ward members, neighbors, etc., that are interested please consolidate your order and purchase a box.  I will let you use my scale if needed. The due date for this order is Monday, October 29th.

StoveTec Stove - The wait is over and now it is time to start ordering the StoveTec's.  You will find on the order form a few additional items that weren't on when we ordered last Spring from StoveTec.  This is one of those orders that I need to have a minimum of 48 stoves before I can order.  So, if we don't meet the minimum by the November due date I will leave it open until we do. 

Several of you have shared with me that this would make a great Christmas gift for family, so my goal is to make sure we have this order before Christmas.  If this interests you, please pass this along to others you know so we can reach the minimum order and have them here by the end of November.

ALSO

First - There is a new Stainless Steel Super Pot, Second - StoveTec Water Pasteurizer and Third - StoveTec custom Stove Bag.  Each of the above items are listed on the order form and there is a one page description on the second page.   This order will be due Monday, November 3rd.  There are no minimums on the Super Pot, Pasteurizer or Custom Bag.

If you are not sure if the StoveTec is for you or not, I do have one on hand for you to use, it is the two-door model and is available to check out for two or three days. If you are interested in trying it give me a call and we can make arrangements for you to try.

Also, there are some great videos on www.youtube.com that you can view or go to www.StoveTec.net and read additional information that is not on the order form.  

UPCOMING ORDERS

October - Country Cream Powdered Milk, Walton Order

November - Dried Beans, Brown Rice and Bucket & Water Container Order

December -  Holiday's

If you have any questions feel free to send me an email or give me a call.

Best Wishes,

Maria Jensen

208-524-0954

If you are unable to open any of the attachments, please send me an email and I will see that you get it another way.

September Preparedness Newsletter

click here for the september preparedness newsletter

August Preparedness Newsletter

August Preparedness Newsletter

Water Storage

Water Storage Pro's and Con's

Emergency preparedness information

(This is some great information given to us from Maria Jensen)

I have been putting together information for Emergency Preparedness and I came across this great 3 minute video from an insurance company and thought it would be great to share with everyone on my email list.  This video show's two seperate families doing a mock evacuation and they have been given 10 minutes to pack everything they think they will need and leave their home.   Click on the following link to go to the web-site to watch it.  http://www2.iii.org/video/evacuation-the-10-minute-challenge.html

I also have another short 1 minute clip that is on youtube that might give you another idea to staying warm outdoors on a cold night, it's known as a super survival tent.  One never knows when it could come in handy.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvKLOMgtM1Q

NURSE'S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE
I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard. Please read, pay attention, and send it
on!

FEMALE HEART ATTACKS
I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is the best description I've ever read. 

Women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have ... you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in
movies. Here is the story of one woman's experience with a heart attack. 

I had a heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might have brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, 'A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.

A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when
you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the
esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation--the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.

After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE
(hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasms), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR).

This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. 'AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling
about what was happening -- we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, Dear God, I think I'm having a heart attack!

I lowered the foot rest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else... but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment.

I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics... I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to un-bolt the door and then lie down on the
floor where they could see me when they came in. 
I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the radiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery. 

I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stints.

Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to
know what I learned first hand. 

1. Be aware that something very different is happening in
your body, not the usual men's symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better in the morning when they wake up... which doesn't happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a 'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be! 

2. Note that I said 'Call the Paramedics.' And if you can, take an aspirin.  Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! 

Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER - you are a hazard to others on the road. 

Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road. 

Do NOT call your doctor -- he doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the
Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr will be notified later. 

3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain
in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could
survive. 

Preparedness Information

At the very least, many of us have some food and water stored in
case of emergency.

But what about items relative to sanitation?


Click here for more information that was given out at the Rigby Preparedness Fair recently.