3/6/2011

So today I woke up on Ruegamer's futon. I was coughing up for about an hour before I decided to go back home. That last cough was enough to get all the nasty stuff out. I hate my life because of all the mucus in my system. I shouldn't have gone to the track on Wednesday night.... and then go sledding the morning after :P

I ate a bunch of bagels this morning.... Idk the validity of those bagels because I bought them a long time ago. Unlike loaves of bread, there hasn't been any signs of molding. I thought I got sick from them because I was tired and went to lie down for about 2 hours. I just laid there... I didn't actually sleep. I was gonna go to the mall, but It was a bit late in the afternoon. I went to the commissary and got some food, then I went to the PX to get some pizza but there was no one there, so i got a quesadilla instead at taco bell;

I chatted with Lenlen for a little bit and then went to church. I went to Monty's like I normally do on Sunday nights. Tonight there was a small group of people. Rob and Karen are going to Switzerland all week and they were gonna leave at 4 in the morning the on Monday.

I ordered some fetuccini w/ mushrooms, and the italian version of a crispy pata which was actually pretty delicious and plenty for me. I also got a 1/2 liter of wine.... I start missing wine when I'm at restaurants for some reason... I just like the taste of it. I drank almost to the bottom of that liter of wine. I went home a little drunk that night.

Random stuff, my neighbor, Matt Reeves showed me and a couple other people his pictures from modeling in Italy 12 years ago. They were really good pics on the cover of the magazine: L'uomo Drink. 

3/5/2011

So today, I woke up around 8 in the morning. I slept for a good 8 hours. My roommate hasn't come back yet so I did what I needed to do that morning and not worry about making too much noise. I organized my room and then I started playing around with the guitar.

I went to ask around for anyone to go to Venice with. Unfortunately everyone was staying put. I normally ask the medics first and I caught up with Ruegamer who was supposed to go to Venice today but ended up having 8 hour hall guard duty. So I hung out with him and another guy on hall guard duty. We started watching "Freddy got fingered" on his laptop. It was a pretty weird movie. But it was funny as well.

Ruegamer and I went to the commissary to get some steaks. We cooked out on the patio along with our fellow medic Whiteneck. We made some really good steaks. We put some good flavoring on them. Ruegamer and I ended up playing videogames and watching a series. I spent a night on his futon. It was pretty nice. I guess he stayed up and played videogames until 3 in the morning because that was about the same time I woke up and went back to sleep afterwards.

I was seriously hacking up some phlegm and mucus to clear my sinuses. It was annoying. That was all I did for 2 hours after I got up. 

3/4/2011

So today is the last day of sick call for me. Oddly there were about a dozen patients. Three of them being our own medics. We had SPc Knox in charge of sick call. He was there for about 2hours until he had an appointment which left me in charge of thd clinic. I had never stayed in the clinic so long in one day. We did PDHRA screenings again for a different company this time. They just kept flowing in like flies throughout the afternoon. We had to take their blood pressures. At about 2 in the afternoon, i was sent to the clinic to get folders. I had to go twice because they wouldn't give them to me at the optometry station. I hate itzwhen people ask mE to do errands for them when i don't really know their purpose. I should definitely ask first before people start looking at me like a crazy person.

Tonigh i went to Rob Karen's house for dinner and bible study. I had a great italian dinner. Afterwards we celebrated Dolores' birthday. I played the guitar for a little bit. I just leaned how to play "Umbrella" earlier so it was a lot of fun. I caught a ride back to post with Bill and Dolores Davis. Incidentally Dolores is a Filipina and she is going to see her mother as she flies to Manila the next day. She hasn't gone back since 2003. That is quite a while. I was dropped off at my barracks. Then i started playing guitar. Then i slept.

Sledding bonanza

So today I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to go show up at 5:15 for the sledding trip. There were about 50 people going on this trip. We grabbed helmets and sign some safety forms for the trip. I didn't have gloves or eye protection, so I grabbed some from the shoppette. I got those and food for about 30 bucks which isn't bad at all.

We left at 6am and arrived around 8:30. We got ski passes handed to us which was pretty sweet! Normally they'd cost 30 euros but I guess ODR already paid for them. There was a 15 minute cable car ride to the top of the mountain. Then we grabbed a bunch of sleds for our group. They were pretty small. I imagined it would be one of the big ones that 4 people could get on.

We had a safety brief and a quick instruction on how to sled. Then we got up to the sledding trail on the top of the mountain. The first part was a smooth run considering there were about 50 people going down on the slope. The second leg of the trail didn't go so well. It was way too fast for anyone to handle. I almost ran into people, I bumped someone's sled and there were all kinds of crazy stuff that happened on the way down that leg.

There were a few people that got hurt, a few that didn't want to go again, and there were people who wanted to just go back and be smarter about it. Not like we're gonna slide 50 people down that slope again.

I did 2 runs down the trail and went to lunch. Lunch was a fixed pasta meal which cost 10 Euros for all of us. None of us could order what we wanted, it was really fixed. I did about 4 more runs down the trail after lunch. I took a shortcut on the way back to the cable cars. We left at 2pm and arrived about 5pm today. I'm still a bit sore from all the action. but it's ok.

Mar 1& 2 2011

Okay clearly I haven't updated my blog for a few days. But there really hasn't been anything special going on. I've been doing my round of sick calls. We had less patients on Tuesday and Wednesday.

I did my portion of the PDHRA which is a survey done after 90 days back from deployment. It was quick and easy. I also did my Battalion commander's checkup which was pretty cool.

I got word that there was gonna be a sledding trip tomorrow morning. It was the whole platoon going. We had to be there at 5:15 in the morning.

The aid station only ran till 4 pm the past 2 days. It was a bit tiring just sitting around waiting for everyone's checkup to be finished.

2/28/2011

So this morning, I woke up at 4:30 am. I went to the battalion around 5am. No one was there. I waited for 20 minutes and then sat in Bundy's car who was doing sick call rounds with me. The car was warm. The aid station was opened up at 5:36 today.

We signed in all the people we needed to sign in. At 6:30 we started grabbing patients to screen. It was easy, but there were a lot of people, due to the fact that it was Monday. I treated a few guys. One with a knee problem and the other with nausea, vomiting diarrhea. Nothing out of the ordinary. All this stuff I've seen down range. Treatment is the same except we don't give out any medications any more because it's in the health clinic control.

The next few hours were confusing. People kept coming up to me asking about physicals and profiles, all stuff which had to be directed to the providers' attention. We  were there until about 5pm

2/27/2011

Okay so today I woke up from a really good night's sleep. I slept for about 12 hours last night. I got out of bed, got cereal and showered and went to my friend's place. He didn't answer his door so I was getting paranoid. Ugh I had to resort to using the master key. My friend Johnson got pretty upset about me going into his room. Of course I kinda expected that. I left the building and went back to my room.

I didn't do anything the whole day because it was raining. Johnson called me at around 4pm. Obviously we weren't going to go anywhere. I just chatted with cuzin Lenlen and went to mass at 5. Afterwards there was a dinner where everyone was serving chili. I enjoyed that very much.

I just went to bed afterwards and I got ready for tomorrow. The weekend was definitely too short! But anyways I have sick call tomorrow at the aid station. I'll be doing that all week.