Suffering a broken bone or fracture would be one of the worst outcomes you can experience when you are in survival mode. It definitely handicaps you, and the extent of the disadvantage you’ll now find yourself in will depend on which bone you’ve broken. Breaking a finger will obviously be more manageable than breaking your foot or your femur bone in your leg, which will ultimately make you immobile.
There aren’t many items in your first aid kit that can remedy breaking a bone. You will definitely be needing a strong over the counter pain reliever, and this is one of the only potential scenarios that I would recommend having prescription pain relievers for.
Whichever bone you break or fracture, you will be in considerable pain. Unfortunately, this pain will persist and only alleviate slowly during your healing process. If this happens to you or if it happens to a loved one, you will collectively be dealt a real blow in your struggle to survive. If it happens to yourself, the pain you’ll feel will likely be excruciating. If one of your loved ones suffers a bone break or fracture, the discomfort you’ll experience tending to them, especially if you are what they call “an empath” will be considerable.
There are dietary measures you can take to speed up the recovery of a broken bone, but unfortunately during a grid down scenario you probably won’t be able to eat said diet when you are relying on survival food. There are some supplements you can take to speed up recovery though, and it might be a good idea to have these at your disposal just in case. The most important vitamin by far would be vitamin K2, which helps calcium absorb into the bone instead of in your arteries. You could also take a calcium supplement which would be helpful, but out of the two vitamin K2 is definitely more effective.
