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Lee Grey
Aug 25, 2024

Preparedness POA&M: Week Ending - 24AUG24 -> Survival Deluxe Dental Kit

The Preparedness POA&M (plan of action & milestones) is a weekly column focusing on skills, self-sufficiency and taskers needed to shore up those areas that will allow us to be part of the solution. As hard times continue to unfold and resources become scarce, the prepared mind strives to take steps to mitigate those eventualities. In order to shepherd our cause, we must have a plan of action and continuously evaluate our progress via milestones as we consider the path onward.


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Lee's POA&M:


Good evening, TBR readers, the weather on Rose Ridge has been a little schizophrenic this week. The early part of the week we were in the 70's for highs and in the 50's for lows but the last few days have been in the 90's...I sure can't wait for fall!


I had to snake the plumbing that connects to our kitchen sink today, again. We have hard water and over the years it builds up this nasty white, chalky junk that clogs up the pipes. It is running smooth now but I think we will be looking into getting a water softening system. I'm not sure what all that entails but I'll jump on YouTube university sometime this week and get trained up!


Mamma Fitz and I also did a little landscaping around our raised beds. We purchased some solar powered garden lights in the city and bought a few shepherds hooks for them. In addition, we laid down about 10 bags of mulch in the raised bed garden area. It's not quite finished but it's close. Fitz also harvested some more slicers and Roma's from the beds. I also started purchasing the equipment I am going to need once my forthcoming podcast, The Path Onward, is ready to launch


This week's focus is on dental.


The photo attached for this week's POA&M depicts the Survival Deluxe Dental Kit from Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy (doomandbloom.net). Below the photo is a list of the contents of the kit. It's pretty robust and is currently on sale for $249 on the site. I don't think that price has fluctuated much over the last few years. I didn't want to compromise the integrity of the packaging so if you want/need a better lay out of the individual tools in the kit the site has some really good photo's.


As with the Stomp bag from a couple POA&M's ago, don't get caught up in the notion that you may not be a dentist so why purchase the kit? Hopefully, you know someone that lives relatively close by that in the event of TEOTWAWKI you could simply hand the kit over to them if you needed treatment. Rule of thumb -> Have access to the gear suite even if you don't know how to use it yet!


Taskers for the coming week...


(1) Complete my four-day-per-week workout sessions.

(2) Finish up goat stall two (I didn't get this done last week).

(3) Continue cutting, splitting and stacking this winters wood stores.

(4) Continue research and writing on my forthcoming novel, "A Mammoth Resistance."

(5) Read through the book of Romans.


Folks, with the insanity that was the recent Democratic National Convention, please stay current on your prepping and any training evolutions you may need to shake off any cobwebs. I believe evil has removed the mask and we should expect some interesting times moving forward as we close in on the 05NOV election and the end of the year.


Prepare Today | Prevail Tomorrow


Lee


Psalm 91



He who abides in the shelter of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to Yahweh, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!” For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper And from the destructive pestilence. He will cover you with His pinions, And under His wings you will take refuge; His truth is a large shield and bulwark.

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Psalm 91:1-4, LSB



CONTENT LIST

 **ALL instruments are Stainless Stain construction 

1 # 150 DENTAL EXTRACTOR- best for UPPER front teeth and premolars extraction

1 # 151 DENTAL EXTRACTOR- best for LOWER front teeth and premolars extraction

1 # 23 DENTAL EXTRACTOR- best for LOWER molars

1 # 53R DENTAL EXTRACTOR- best for UPPER right molars (OR EQUIVALENT) 

1 # 53L DENTAL EXTRACTOR- best for UPPER left molars (OR EQUIVALENT) 

1 # 12B DENTAL ELEVATOR

1 # 301 OR # 46 DENTAL ELEVATOR

 

1 STERILE SCALPEL


1 DOUBLE-SIDED SPOON EXCAVATOR (for removal of tooth debris and decayed dentin from cavities)

 

1 COMBO METAL DENTAL PICK/SCRAPER/SCALER (one sided instrument)

 

1 METAL TWEEZER/PICKUP

 

1 METAL DENTAL MIRROR

 

1 NEEDLE HOLDER/HEMOSTAT

 

1 SMALL SCISSORS

 

1 SYRINGE CURVED TIP 12ml (for irrigation purposes)

 

1 HAND SANITIZER 

 

2 4-0 ABSORBABLE SUTURES

 

10 EARLOOP FACE MASKS- BLUE 

 

1 ACTCEL HEMOSTATIC GAUZE 2X2 (to help stop oral bleeding)

 

1 4 OZ. HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

 

2 MEDIUM ERASERS (for use as a dental bite block to keep patients from closing their mouths)

 

1 ORGANIC CLOVE BUD ESSENTIAL OIL (15 ml of eugenol to make temporary filling cement)

 

1 ZINC OXIDE POWDER PACKET (for use with clove oil to make temporary filling cement)

 

10 PACKETS 2X2 STERILE GAUZE

 

10 ALCOHOL WIPES

 

10 BETADINE WIPES

 

50 COTTON DENTAL PELLETS 

 

50 COTTON DENTAL ROLLS

 

10 NITRILE GLOVES

 

10 or More GUM/DENTAL PICKS

 

1 DENTAL FLOSS

 

1 WAX DENTAL STICK

 

1 ORAL ANALGESIC (Benzocaine) OR 10 ORAL ANALGESIC PAIN RELIEF PACKETS

 

1 REUSABLE HOT/COLD PACK

 

10 PILL CUPS OR 5 WEIGHING PAPERS (for mixing zinc and clove oil)

 

20 COTTON TIP APPLICATORS

 

10 TONGUE DEPRESSORS

 

2 TOOTHBRUSHES

 

1 3.5 OZ. TOOTHPASTE WITH BAKING SODA

 

20 GENERIC IBUPROFEN 200MG TABLETS

 

1 "Where There is No Dentist" Book

 

NOTE: All items packed in waterproof plastic inside a MIL SPEC CANVAS BAG


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In Congress, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of

Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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       He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

       He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

       He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

       He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

       He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

       He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

       He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

       He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

       He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

       He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

       He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

       He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

       He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

       For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

       For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

       For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

       For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

       For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

       For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

       For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

       For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

       For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

       He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

       He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

       He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

       He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

       He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

 

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

 

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

 

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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