The importance of medications in your 72-hour kits

You may know by now how important it is to store at least a 3 day supply of medications in your 72-hour kits.  This is not only in case of a catastrophic emergency (earthquake, flood, etc.).  It's just a plain good idea to have extra medication on hand.  True story:  We recently made a last minute trip  to Idaho to stay with my sister for Christmas (as in we decided at 11:00 am on Christmas morning we were going up that day:).  We were packed and ready to go in an hour-no small feat y'all considering there are 6 of us.  Anyway, our middle son has severe asthma.  We always say that as long as we have his medication packed, we can forget just about anything else.  Well, we did great and remembered to pack his bag of medication.  HOWEVER, we weren't so lucky on the way home and left the bag in my sister's guest room, high up on a shelf :(  No bueno.  We would normally be fine, we always order a 3 month supply of all maintenance medications through mail order.  However, we just reordered and the new shipment was on it's way, but would take a couple of days to get here.  Fortunately, I remembered I had a few days worth of medication tucked away in our 72-hour kit.  It sure saved the day.  I didn't have to have my sister overnight the medicine to us, and I didn't have to worry about trying to get something from the pharmacy.  Morale of the story: I definitely recommend ordering your meds 3 months at a time if possible.  Then, in addition to that, put away a few days worth in your 72-hour kit.  You won't regret it!