Articles tagged with 'medical'

When you’re popping pills to ward off protozoan parasites, that’s when you know you’re really traveling. I’m walking along a narrow path, and now the jungle has closed in around me, but the kids are still everywhere. Ciccio has one hanging off the index finger of his right hand, she looks to be perhaps three, but that tiny little hand is holding tight, and she’s keeping up with the...

Well folks he was fine, sort of, at least for a few days after his fall into the rear lazerette hatch last Tuesday. But just after we arrived here in Lanzarote he was moving around and OUCH! The hospital X-ray revealed he'd actually fractured a rib clean through so after some deliberations between Art and Giamma, Art's made the very difficult choice to fly on and meet us in Antigua.

There is something particularly lovely about a Moroccan sunrise, especially when viewed from one hundred miles out in the Atlantic, it's the deep desert red converging with vast open ocean blue; a magical combination. We are now properly at sea, Mediterranean waves have given way to deep ocean rolling swell; hump shaped, house sized, and ceaseless. We have good wind but are still...

An essential book about taking care of medical emergencies while at sea that is organized in five chapters; Preparation, Emergencies: How to Save and Preserve Life, Accidents and Trauma, Medical Disorders and Treatments and Emergency Medical Procedures. Each entry within a chapter has a flowchart to follow in helping you diagnose and treat a patient.

How do you handle a medical situation while you are sailing offshore? It’s a difficult question as most of us are not professionally trained for this but it does happen so we need to think about what we would do. Similar to deciding what other safety equipment you have onboard, you need to consider what medical equipment you need and how you will be trained to use it.

Despite the fact that we've yet to leave our home state of Florida, it feels as if our great journey has already begun. Over the weekend Art and I attended our second and final meeting leading up to our May launch date for our flight round the world. There are so many things that have to be done in order to be prepared for a flight of this magnitude; it can easily seem overwhelming....