cell phones in the wilderness

I know -- I'm just one of those silly, overprotective mothers. (NO FLAMES
HERE. I'M NOT FLAMING. My husband calls me that and I'm the Scout, not
him!!!!!) However, I have to respond to Jim Moss's excellent post about
cell phones and their basic worthlessness in the wilderness. =20

yes, we Americans have gotten lazy and don't know how to be self reliant. I
agree. However, as a former air-medical dispatcher and the wife of an ICU
nurse, there is a critical period of time to get severely injured critical
cases to the trauma center for LIFE SAVING treatment. (The Golden Hour, I
think it's called) These people generally do not have the leisure of an 8
hour donkey trip. Head injuries, chest injuries, severe bleeding, heart
attacks should take precedence over the noble desire to do things for
ourselves. Most of our Scout outings are not in Nepal or even Philmont. I
would much prefer to know that there was some means to get help quickly if
there was a true emergency. (I'm not talking getting lost like the cell
phone commercial with the little nerdy scout bringing along his phone when
the equally nerdy leader got lost. Did you notice there was only one
leader? Definitely not BSA)

I would hate to lose a boy (or adult volunteer) when a call to an emergency
response facility would have saved his life. Do you want to be the one to
tell his mother?=20

rhonda v



Rhonda Vandergriff =86 All things work for good =20
momscout@geocities.com to those who love the LORD=20
rvandergriff@semovm.semo.edu =20
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What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?
Why, the same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world

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