Thursday, February 12, 2009
No News is Shitty News - 12 Feb 2009 - 1845
No flights again for us today. On bag guard duty we watched groups come in and load up for their flights immediately. The constant state of uncertainty with our platoon is bad for morale. The platoon tries to stay motivated by joking about the ridiculous nature in which we are being jerked around. I’m feeling pretty run down right now. I think the change in climate, amount of dust in the air, shifting sleep schedules and other contributing factors are wearing on me. My sinuses are flared up, I’m waking up with a sore throat, and my wrist, which I had surgery on right before coming on deployment, is in worse shape than before the surgery, no doubt from moving hundreds of pounds of baggage again and again. I considered going to the TMC (troop medical clinic) and seeing if I could get a light duty profile, but I’m concerned that it may be more serious and they could send me home. I was having trouble with it while we were in pre-MOB training at RTC North, Ft McCoy, WI. We had been doing a of physical work and it killed my wrist. Shortly after we returned home for a short stint it went back to being fine. I brought my leftover hydracodon along and I may start taking a bit of that. I’m kind of glad we won’t be leaving tonight as I just generally feel sick. Hopefully another day of lying around breathing dust should clear that right up. I have the 2330 shift on OBW ’09 (Operation Bag Watch) tonight so I’ll be up a little late. Hopefully my roommates will keep it down in the morning and I can sleep in a bit.
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Hi Cody -
ReplyDeleteWe are have quite a snow storm here and I am trying to imagine it as sand. They actually cancelled school for today. Your comments are, to say the least, moving. Thank you for your service. I have a great respect for you and am honored to have you as a son- in -law. Take care of yourself. We will take good care of Sarah for you. If you need anything you know to just give us a shout out.
Hello Cody:
ReplyDeleteYou're Mom and I are thinking about you and we are glad we can talk to you in some fashion even though neither one of us is real adept at this bloggin business:p.
It sounds like quite an adventure over there, but we know it is what you want to do and have been training for, we are very proud of you.
It has been very cold lately with some snow falling today, spring can't come soon enough for us, we sure would like to go to a much warmer place sometime, by the way I am writing this because you're Mom said she would cry if she wrote this, so she is sitting here crying anyway,Well not crying, just teary eyed. She is giving me hell about my punctuation, etc.
What is James' blog? You're Mom is wondering.
We will be in touch and we are looking forward to your posts.
take care and be careful,maybe next time your mom will type this instead of dictating it to me.:p
Your MomNBob