You read every day on this
Forum about Members and Visitors preparing for a Trip of a Life Time ect, making sure their Vehicles are set up and serviced, their Camper Trailers / Caravans /
Camping Equipment ect are prepaired for any obstacle they might come across, even making sure they have the best Communications Equipment they can afford in case of an Emergency, as a lot of us like to get away from Civilisation or Off The Beaten Track as one might say, we even take along a good
First Aid Kit that would be sufficent to meet the needs of most Accidents / or the usual Ailments humans have, even Medications that are prescribed for current health issues, BUT how many of us get a proper Medical before we undertake our expeditions, I don't mean the 5 minute job at our local GP, I am talking about the Full Gamut, ok some might say that costs a fair bit of money and it takes time to organise blah blah ect, but it's nothing compared to what we have spent on our Vehicles / Equipment ect, and a lot of us think we are bullet proof, or it sounds like we suffer from Hypochondria, WRONG,
The other day I was at my G P who is a friend, and is a 4x4 enthusiast, I mentioned we were planning and extended trip in the near future, and just by chance we were talking about the
young girl on the Solo Yacht trip, and some of the Medical Emergencies she might encounter, and he said what about Myself and the
Cook, we should get a Full Medical,
well we did, and they found out that the
Cook had a major problem with Calcium Buildup in her Arteries,they said she was a Time Bomb ready to explode, anyway the best thing is she went in to hospital yesterday, and had Stents put in and all is ok, but, if we were on our trip in the middle of No Where and she had a problem I wouldn't have been able to fix her with the
First Aid Kit or the Tool Kit.
Cheers