If you haven't already, I'd like to encourage you all to get some decent medical training. Trauma + something like Wilderness First Responder, or if you have the time/interest/$$$, Wilderness EMT. The observational and diagnostic skills you pick up may save your own life.

I may have saved my own life the past few days largely because of my training. I short while ago, I noticed an oddly-behaving rash that didn't respond to any normal sane treatment. I dropped by my doctor to get an opinion, doctor wasn't terribly worried, issued me some useful meds. And, here's the key bit, because my doc is quite good, she took some tissue samples and sent them in for a culture, just in case.

Two days later, the rash exploded like wildfire. The perimeter moved an inch in about 4 hours. I called the doc, after hours.

MRSA and several other Very Bad Things came back in the cultures at about that same time my doc was meeting me *after hours* to look at it. Super magic hi-tech medications were sourced (tricky here on the island), and I'm dosed to the gills now, and likely will live.

If I hadn't had the training ,and experience seeing this sort of thing in other people, I might well have waited for a more convenient time to see the doc. This would likely have produced a very very poor outcome for me. The growth rate of the Bad Things is quite impressive, once your body decides it can't handle fighting it anymore on its own.

Be careful out there!