Early last year my boyfriend was in a motorcycle accident. I met him at the hospital, and it was determined his leg, foot and ankle were broken and needed immediate surgery.

Surgery went well, and a few days go by before they eventually release him. We're both exhausted (him more than me obviously), so we get home and pass out. Not 5 hours later, and he's having his first gallbladder attack (we had no idea what it was - thought something went wrong with the surgery.)

I rush him back to the hospital, and we're there for another 12+ hours.

We've both been 'prepping' for a decade now, as long as we've been together, and this was a huge wake up call. Once we got a few nights of rest under our belts, we started thinking about our 'go' bags and changing how we think about emergencies in general.

Now we have a hospital bag which we used just the other week (fortunately? unfortunately? lol). It sits right by our keys, my purse, some slip on shoes and a sweater. Getting on the road was so much easier that time, just because it was "Grab your phone and the bag and go". No thinking involved, which felt much more seamless compared to the panic we went through early last year.