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Come on, come on, I'm waiting for more. I love that story!
Okay, it was about time for a new segment. Chapter 9 comprises nearly 17 pages total in Word so there'll be a bit to keep readers busy as I get it edited and posted.
RR
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RR, just wanted to let you know I've really gotten into "Patriot Aid Station". Great job! Between the news on Timebomb and y'all's stories, I'm just spending way, way too much time on the computer. Oh well, I'm enjoying it.
If we aren't showing a little love, His love, then what are we doing calling ourselves Christians?
Psalm 73: 25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Look at it this way... DH & I just got back from the book store where we dropped $149 or so bucks. Whimper. Mind you retail would have been close to $400, so that's not bad.
But with Patriot Aid Station & AT's great stuff, etc. we're getting it CHEAP! Wish duct tape cost that little, not to mention water purifiers, rations, rope, seeds, antibiotics...sigh
More of my thoughts on flu/health matters and the latest news can be found at [url= http://www.curevents.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=21]The Laboratory[/url].
The sad (?) part is the story is getting to the real medical side only now. The buildup has been slower than I planned simply because my wild imagination keeps coming up with new twists to work in. A doc Down Under is feeding me info on some procedures that will play an important role before long, a PA on the East Coast is advising on other aspects, and I have gathered a short ton of additional medical references to check against the info being related so as not to steer people wrong.
As far as the austere aspects of medicine being highlighted I spent 2 weeks in Central America last summer assisting with the teaching of a wilderness medicine course. Just because something is rejected by our the-supply-system-is-your-friend medical philosophy doesn't mean it won't work when there are no alternatives. Myself I'll take appropriate hi-tech any day. I do, however, know how to function without it. Proctoclysis anyone?
Something tells me the population of rural St. Olaf is about to explode.....
RR
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Good job RR. I have been following your story right along.
I am not necessarily medically minded,so your story has made me do a lot of thinking about medical situations that might occur if the SHTF and we become that 3rd world country.
Your plot keeps me going on the rest of the story too.
Love the slingshots! Makes a lot of sense.
Hey, RR, I'm anxiously awaiting another chapter. Please?!!
CanadaSue, you are absolutely right!
If we aren't showing a little love, His love, then what are we doing calling ourselves Christians?
Psalm 73: 25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
RR, your rhythm is getting better and better on this.
Excellent story!
Thanks.
Tim
Sorry for the delay ladies and gentlemen. Lightening struck too close to home (literally) and fried my modem, both phones, the house phone wiring and literally blew the cover off the junction box on the outside wall. That was a week ago and I am just getting back on line with a borrowed 166.
More story to be posted.
RR
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Glad to hear it!
Also even more glad you didn't lose more than you did to that lightning strike!
We get so much lightning here in Florida that it's always a major concern with me.
You're doing a good job of keeping the excitement level up in your story. An interesting perspective to take. Not very much use of air power though, is there?
.....Alan.
We have only begun to fight.Originally posted by A.T.Hagan
Not very much use of air power though, is there?
RR
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Just wanted to jump in and say "fine job" RR. Your story board (if thats what you are using) has to be a bear to keep track of.
Doing a great job.
Thanks
Tim
Glad you're back on line, RR. I'm eagerly awaiting another installment.
If we aren't showing a little love, His love, then what are we doing calling ourselves Christians?
Psalm 73: 25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Just a writer's heads up if you will. I finished nursing school last month and now find I actually have time to write!
Between the necessary side job, actual classroom/clinical time and the homework (my God the homework!) I was putting in 100 hours a week for far too long. Hence, something had to give. The story was but one.
But, as you can see I am writing again. The story has a long way to go and I hope that the renewed vigor and available time will be fruitful for everyone.
RR
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RR
First, congrats on finishing nursing school before it finished you!
And, I guess I am glad you didn't totally follow my advice but very glad you got time to write.
I am so glad poor Leadfoot is close to getting help for that leg. Ya think he might have missed the 'golden hour'?
Enjoyed the latest.
DM
The problem is that people keep screaming:"The wolf is coming, the wolf is coming!" so often that we never notice the coyote that is running off with the chickens.
"I could be wrong, it could be worse." Infomajic
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Congrats on finishing school. When do you start working as a nurse? Are you going to do the immersion route and work in an inner-city ER? My aunt did that in DC at DC General and said that she learned more there then in the previous 15 years of nursing.
Thanks for the latest installment of PAS. I really have enjoyed reading it. I hope that you'll be able to find enough time to finish it up in the next few months.
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The country's been invaded so we're working on the 'golden day" principal. Next thing you know it'll be the "golden week.'Originally posted by DustMusher
I am so glad poor Leadfoot is close to getting help for that leg. Ya think he might have missed the 'golden hour'?
RR
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RR, please, please tell me we don't have to wait another month or more for the next installment! You left us hanging.....I want to know what's happening......
If we aren't showing a little love, His love, then what are we doing calling ourselves Christians?
Psalm 73: 25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
This is Grantbo
Beretta's rule, elite II. Glocks blow up! Heard it, seen it?
Grantbo,
The story takes place in 2011. Glock has improved their metallurgy.
RR
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Deena, sorry, but my co-workers have been leaving me hanging, as in out. Like in staying over and working a double shift or even double-plus. I'm trying to crank it out as fast as I can. I am making progress. As soon as I add more to the current segment I'll post it. Probably within a few days. This morning by the time crawled into bed I had been awake for 26 hours, driven back from the northern side of the Ozarks and then worked my shift plus the following one. I may as well be back in college.
I appreciate your interest though. Future segments will explore the medical aspect in much greater depth, augmented by some outstanding references one might think were written for the story. Yes, Virginia, there really are medical books written for establishing austere hospitals in contested areas. Not like you'd find the American Hospital Association recommending sandbagging the sides of stakebed trucks to create a mobile operating theater.
RR
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Whew...RR....your schedule makes me tired just thinking about it! Sorry if I seemed impatient - just eager to read more.
If we aren't showing a little love, His love, then what are we doing calling ourselves Christians?
Psalm 73: 25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
I'll be posting another segment to chapter 13 then off on a hiatus while I take my Boy Scouts to summer camp for 8 days. Sorry folks, but it has to be. I'll return on the 31st and then pick up the pen again. Hope it satisfies the cravings for a time.
RR
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Hiatus is over! I know, I know, about time, eh?
I've moved to Arizona, am getting settled in after 6 weeks or so and have found time to do some writing on my days off. Trying to add at least a few sentences every day while keeping a bit in reserve as it were. If it gets too long between installments I'll post a couple pages at least rather than the usual 4-5.
RR
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Yeaaaaaaaaaaa
Glad to have you back.
More glad to have the story back.
More to come soon. I've taken to writing longer segments rather than a multitude of short segments. Hopefully things will flesh out better we progress.
Damn, just when is poor ol' Leadfoot ever going to reach help, or is he????
RR
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Okay, far too long in coming but there it is, a wee bit more for you to feast upon. Been far longer since anyone commented so I wasn't certain but that I'd completely lost the interest of my readers. For my die-hard fans (???) I promise there will be more in the near future. What can I say but that I have managed to break the block.
RR
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Yipeeeee!!!!
No, I for one have not lost interest!
Thank you for the update and I look forward to reading more of your incredible story.
Sis
THANK YOU for bringing this back to life -- poor Leadfoot --must have been the longest healing compartment syndrome in history. Ohhh the pain -- had one patient who developed compartment syndrome when I was floated to an Ortho floor - had to convince the Doc I really DID know what I was looking at - surgey was within 45 min of my call to him....
MOAR please!
DM (now retired RN)
The problem is that people keep screaming:"The wolf is coming, the wolf is coming!" so often that we never notice the coyote that is running off with the chickens.
"I could be wrong, it could be worse." Infomajic
I've just read this back to back.... My other half has forgotten what I look like
Good job I didn't pick this up when RR started it, I'd of gone nuts before now
Thanks mate, any chance of some more ? (anytime in the next three months will do
Any more to the story?
WAB
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."---- Robert A. Heinlein
Please post comments to this thread.
RR
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Wow! Glad to see you back.
Got to play catch up again.
I had not read anyting past Chapter X, probably over there?
Buckshot
Thanks RR. Good to see you here once again.
Hope AZ is being good to you and Pyg.
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