Off the Grid - Hackdot

Re:Off the Grid by talliedthoughts on Saturday January 22, 2022 @08:05AM (#30036293)

Thanks for sharing, great story! I like that you touch on living there when you get old, a lot of the younger off-griders don't seem to have a clear plan for that, or are not talking about it.

I'm curious if you have thoughts on how you can deal with the inevitable medical issues as you get older:

   - medical emergency, needing an ambulance right away

   - a serious medical issue that needs frequent hospital appointments, say kidney dialysis or chemo

   - more common stuff like needing a cane to walk, or no longer being able to climb a mast to fix your internet

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Re:Off the Grid by madaxe_again on Saturday January 22, 2022 @09:38AM (#30036981)

In short? Children, and making stuff as resilient as possible.

Re: medical emergency, we’ve already had a few of those - it’s a 30 minute drive to the nearest emergency room/hospital, and we keep a well-stocked first aid cabinet that can cater for most trauma, and have stuff like a defibrillator, tourniquets, epinephrine in it, as you never know when I’m going to stick a pitchfork through a power line or fall off a roof, or stick an axe through my hand (that was the first emergency) or when my wife is going to get swarmed by hornets again (we discovered last year that she has a severe allergy).

I’m also putting some stead in the idea of EVTOL being a normal and affordable thing by the time I’m in my dotage, which will make our current inaccessibility moot.

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