Birthday During Quarantine

Soooo... my birthday was this week...not that it was a special number or anything (once I hit 50, I stopped calculating my age).

I never expected that I would spend this birthday, stuck at home, just my son and I. No special dinner with friends. No fancy meal out (using DoorDash doesn't count!). No fancy cake, or my fave ice cream.

Despite us both feeling sick with coughs and crud, my son made the day special. He actually put on clothes, drew me a card, and was nice ALL day!!I

Attitude matters.

💜

Mac and cheese

I don't understand people ripping boxed mac-and-cheese kits away from other people. Yeah, every food item is flying off of shelves because of social distancing and self quarantines (or just plain greed), but if there isn't boxed variations available, is it too much to ask that they make it from scratch?  Don't they know how super easy it is to make?!?

Instructions:

Boil pasta.

Drain.
Put back in bowl.

Add butter and grated cheese.

Stir until heat from pasta melts the butter and cheese.

Eat.

Sure, there are other ways to make it, other ingredients you could add, but still...come on!!

Source of Water

If things go kaput, requiring you to be quarantined in your home, do you have enough water? Water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, make your baby's bottle or instant lemonade for your child, and for your pets and garden...

With the constant buzz over the possible Coronavirus pandemic (still just an epidemic), there is a flurry of activity for people to gather supplies for a possible quarantine.

Have you given a thought to water? Sure, you can stock up bottles and jugs of water, just in case something happens to your current source, but what about beyond that?

There is a small creek behind my patio fence that could provide water for my kid and I (we would have to strain and boil first/otherwise purify it).

And with all of the rain we have been getting lately, I put out four buckets to catch what I could. When they get full, I will snap the lids on...can always use to water the garden later.

What are YOU doing for extra water?

SHTF and Prescription Medications

I belong to a few prepping groups on Facebook. A post recently caught my eye. Of course, it was about the Coronavirus.... so many are these days.

Pictures and video have been circulating across the internet of how China is quarantining many of its residents, and even in some cases, welding doors shut.

I live in the United States. I can't imagine a time when a policeman or National Guard person would come to my door, tape up a notice saying that we were quarantined, and then weld my door shut. It seems unfathomable, but did make me consider the state of health care preparing, OTCs, and  more specifically, prescription medications.

I have numerous health issues including liver disease and diabetes. I can do without prescription medications if necessary... as long as I alter how I eat and how I take care of myself.

My son has uncontrolled epilepsy; he is on four seizure medications and believe me when I say that it is impossible to stock up on these medications. There is only one that I sort of accidentally stockpiled three months of, but the other three... I can barely get them on a month-to-month basis. The pharmacy just does not stock them, and other methods (CBD oil, keto diet, etc) don't work on him 

So what would happen to my son when his seizure meds begin to run out? I wouldn't be able to double up on the one I have stockpiled because it would quickly cause liver and kidney damage as well as probably put him in a suicidal or homicidal rage. So my best guess is that the seizures would start back... perhaps slowly at first. But after a while, they will increase intensity until finally he has that one last fatal seizure.

I would have absolutely no way to stop it.

So powerless.

If there's a situation where I cannot get his seizure meds every 30 days... what would we do?

Have you taken a look at your own health lately? Do you know how many extra pills of your prescription medications you have? Can you get more? Are there alternatives say holistic measures?

Give it some thought.