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Reply to: Prepping with family member having dementia Posted November 15, 2022

I do not have words to say how sorry I am for you Steve Martin and Shaun. This is a very sad disease for sure and I have a soft spot for those who I hear are going through it. Steve, for you to experience this so young in your marriage, it must have been an extremely hard this past year.  My only advice is to take care of yourself, and the next time you meet with your doctor, ask if there would be any benefit to having your wife go on a ketogenic diet. With the help of a nutritionist, it may help. There was a study done in 2020 in the Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology titled Ketogenic Diet for the Treatment and Prevention of Dementia: A Review. The summary is that this way of eating has the potential to lower systematic inflammation in the body and allow malfunctioning body functions to potentially heal. I’m not saying it’s the cure to all dementia, but possibly could help since you caught it early and may prolong the decline. As to how to prepare for such a life, Shaun had good advice of getting your finances and all that legal stuff in order now and tie in a close family member to help you. Plan to adjust your life if things get worse and do not feel bad if you have to get a part time nurse to help out at the house or potentially taking her to a full time care facility. My family had all the good intentions that they could muster to help my grandfather with dementia out, but eventually it just was way too much on a huge support network of people to even handle and he went to a care facility. He is doing well there and is living out life the best way he can. 

Reply to: What is a working (i.e., preppable) definition of “civil unrest” or disorder? Posted July 25, 2022
Reply to: [Official discussion] Best survival watches Posted July 11, 2022

Mechanical windup watches that do not use batteries are incredible feats of engineering, but are known to be less accurate than quartz watches. A mechanical watch may get off as much as 5 seconds a day where as a quartz watch usually strays by only 1 second a day. You can also buy 5 cheap quartz watches for the price of a mechanical watch. My quartz watches creep ahead by like 10-15 seconds a month and I calibrate it to the time on my phone which is more accurate because it is constantly updated. Knowing how much your watch creeps ahead or lags behind in a month can be valuable to give you a rough sense of how much to adjust your watch by if the grid went down and you still wanted accurate time keeping. If you do want the most accurate at all times wrist watch, you should look for one that can listen for and receive atomic clock calibrations such as: Casio G-Shock GW2310-1 Casio WV58A-1AVCR Casio G-Shock MTGM900DA-8CR

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Reply to: Prepping with family member having dementia Posted November 15, 2022

I do not have words to say how sorry I am for you Steve Martin and Shaun. This is a very sad disease for sure and I have a soft spot for those who I hear are going through it. Steve, for you to experience this so young in your marriage, it must have been an extremely hard this past year.  My only advice is to take care of yourself, and the next time you meet with your doctor, ask if there would be any benefit to having your wife go on a ketogenic diet. With the help of a nutritionist, it may help. There was a study done in 2020 in the Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology titled Ketogenic Diet for the Treatment and Prevention of Dementia: A Review. The summary is that this way of eating has the potential to lower systematic inflammation in the body and allow malfunctioning body functions to potentially heal. I’m not saying it’s the cure to all dementia, but possibly could help since you caught it early and may prolong the decline. As to how to prepare for such a life, Shaun had good advice of getting your finances and all that legal stuff in order now and tie in a close family member to help you. Plan to adjust your life if things get worse and do not feel bad if you have to get a part time nurse to help out at the house or potentially taking her to a full time care facility. My family had all the good intentions that they could muster to help my grandfather with dementia out, but eventually it just was way too much on a huge support network of people to even handle and he went to a care facility. He is doing well there and is living out life the best way he can. 

Reply to: What is a working (i.e., preppable) definition of “civil unrest” or disorder? Posted July 25, 2022
Reply to: [Official discussion] Best survival watches Posted July 11, 2022

Mechanical windup watches that do not use batteries are incredible feats of engineering, but are known to be less accurate than quartz watches. A mechanical watch may get off as much as 5 seconds a day where as a quartz watch usually strays by only 1 second a day. You can also buy 5 cheap quartz watches for the price of a mechanical watch. My quartz watches creep ahead by like 10-15 seconds a month and I calibrate it to the time on my phone which is more accurate because it is constantly updated. Knowing how much your watch creeps ahead or lags behind in a month can be valuable to give you a rough sense of how much to adjust your watch by if the grid went down and you still wanted accurate time keeping. If you do want the most accurate at all times wrist watch, you should look for one that can listen for and receive atomic clock calibrations such as: Casio G-Shock GW2310-1 Casio WV58A-1AVCR Casio G-Shock MTGM900DA-8CR