10/24/2019
RATs used to help save another person! ...... The original Email is below! So incredibly humbling to hear these stories!
W.C.
Jeff Kirkham and RATS medical i just want to say thank you! As a prepared citizen, I have been carrying a touniquet everyday for about 2 years. However it has been off body carry until about 5 months ago. I picked up a RATS tourniquet and the compact size allowed me to carry it in my pocket everyday. This past weekend I was at archery deer camp with my dad and my brother in law. Saturday after noon my dad and my brother in law took off to go hunt. I wasnt feeling up it so i decided to stay at camp clean up, fish a little, and make some dinner. About 30 to 45 minutes went by and then i heard my dad scream for me. I had never heard him scream like that so i knew somthing was bad wrong. In a panic i grabed my ccw and ran to the sound of his voice. Leaving behind my fully stocked IFAK. When i got to him he told me he had fallen from his tree stand and landed on his crossbow. His ankle was almost fully amputated. Blood was gushing from the wound. He was trying to put his shoe laces around his leg. I quickly cut them off and split his pants to the knee with my hunting knife and applied the RATS tourniquet. The bleeding stopped. I called 911 and being deep in the backwoods of missouri they had alot of trouble finding us. My brother in law showed up and we started the process of getting my dad out of the woods. We made a road through the woods for the 4 wheel drive expedition. Layed the seats down and put him in the back. Drove through some fields to where we could see a road. There was a solid steel conservation dept. Gate in our was we busted the lock with a splitting maul. I started driving my dad to the hospitol. On the gravel roads we met the paramedics and EMTS. The whole insident from when i found him to when he was in an ambulance was an hour and a half. He was drug through the woods, loaded into a vehicle, bounced around and your tourniquet still stayed in place. Without your product i wouldnt be going to see him in the hospitol. THANK YOU! For providing me with the tool I needed to bring my dad home.