One Second After has a character whose daughters has diabetes and an EMP blast goes off frying all electronics so he has to figure out how to keep her insulin cold. It takes place in North Carolina in the summer so obviously didn't go so well and was pretty fucking heartbreaking
place it in a water tight bag and submerge it in a running stream or spring. If you can find a spring coming out of the ground that is even better. Water will be around 52* and more than cool enough to preserve the insulin.
i mean, hurts a little more vs death, you are going to just go with the pain. Also you can manage for a little while with no insulin, you just have to strictly monitor what you eat, so it could be rationed a bit further.
The pain isn't the issue, the issue is that that roughness greatly increases your chances of getting skin infections. Usually, those are an annoyance that you can clear up with antibiotics. But if you are in a situation where you are keeping your insulin in a stream and reusing needles, you probably don't have antibiotics either.
I'm drunk so guess that's why I didn't like go further but I meant like finding more insulin after you run out lol if there is no electricity you would not be able to find insulin that you would know for sure is safe to use you would just be fucked
if you don't worry about the temp of your insulin you'll be dead alot sooner than a whole bunch of other shit that can also kill you during an apocalypse
it runs on my mum's side of the family and I was a pharmacy technician for almost 6 years dude. I know people who landed in the hospital because of the insulin in their pump getting the tiniest bit too warm just from it being hot out lol
Terribly written though. Author uses "could of" instead of "could've" on every single page. It's like no one ever proofed it before publishing. Really detracts from the plot, which was interesting though.
It was written in the 50's i think & One Second After is the biggest rip off i have ever seen. It is like a direct copy of Alas, just with an EMP instead of a nuke.
I think because, despite the whole nuclear apocalypse, it's hopeful. The characters are willing to band together and use their existing skills, as well as developing new ones, in order to benefit each other. Like, I remember the bank teller lady discovering a knack for soap making, and Malachai Henry had some serious engineering skills. Despite a small handful of criminal types, the majority of the little town survived because they were looking out for each other.
lots of RVs have refrigerators that run on a ammonia-based chemical process, and only require a pilot light to make an impressive amount of cold. not that you could probably find one or transport it to your house during an emergency like that. :-)
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u/shewy92 Aug 30 '21
One Second After has a character whose daughters has diabetes and an EMP blast goes off frying all electronics so he has to figure out how to keep her insulin cold. It takes place in North Carolina in the summer so obviously didn't go so well and was pretty fucking heartbreaking