I totally agree with you <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I got the sutures when I first started buying materials and so I have a LOT of them...more than I need really. But now that I've done more research I likely would not use them but instead would use the steristrips I got and then try to get someone to a doctor. ( I guess I bought the sutures for a worse case medical meltdown in Atlanta... and one of our best friends is a doctor who lives very close by... ) So I wanted to have "what we would need" but hope we'd never use them. On the upside, I found them to be great for sewing up other things (we played with a few of them). When they get close to their expiration date in 2006 I'll resell them on Ebay (I mostly bought sealed, closed boxes of them so they hadn't been tampered with as far as I know). I also didn't buy from just any medical seller but found a few trusted sources and stayed with them to try and mitigate exactly the scenario you described.

As far as meds, I would only give medicine to myself or to my family so I know our health backgrounds... but that's sound advice you're giving. Thanks <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Our friend also told me to change my focus on what I originally was buying and instead get more of what we were more likely to use (OTC meds, 3 antibiotics, povidone iodine pads, Pepto Bismol etc)...