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Adina - Pigs Trotters!



I’m thinking it’s an unusual heading for a blog – but then again who knows what awaits us on our voyages?

When you sail around the world you need to be largely self sufficient. And that means there will be times when you can’t call up a doctor at a minutes’ notice. Although I do put my hand-up and say with the English NHS system it’s not so easy getting an appointment in the first place.

Susie managed to organise a private tutor through Stormforce based in Shamrock Quay to give us two days of medical training. Our tutor was Frank Schweitzer a retired consultant, yachtmaster examiner etc. who proved to be an excellent tutor and a heck of a good chap at that too. Susie and Frank had agreed a curriculum and we were joined by friends Neil and Hallie Meyrick. The brief was to cover key medical treatment, medicine for onboard a yacht and how to get help.

Susie was soon showing herself to be quite some wannabe doctor peppering Frank with questions (all answered in his stride) and showing off some extensive first aid knowledge. I’m thinking we may need to enrol her into medical school when we get back. Sunday was certainly the highlight as we got to practise stitching and administrating injections. That’s where the pigs trotters came in. Duly cut up, we got to practise stitching them up and giving them injections. And everyone performed admirably well! Could be interesting doing that on a lurching boat – hopefully we will be very safe and it won’t be needed.

To wrap it up we went through a comprehensive list of medicines and kit to take with us. Antibiotics, painkillers and various other drugs with extensive latin names. Shan’t mention the tubes that were recommended and made Tom cringe.

Otherwise it’s all systems go on Adina with trying to get everything ready and pushing folk you are relying on to have things delivered on time. A bit of a challenge!

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Susie injecting

Susie stiching

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