Today we have a guest story from my partner in crime...oopps....clinic. He is going to tell you of a story that happened shortly before I came here. In fact, he's full of stories, so as long as he wants to tell them.....
Ready for this one? Yesterday, around 1000, I get a radio call from the FOB Mayor, (Base leader), to report to the military clinic. I figured one of our convoys or patrols got zapped and they needed extra help. I get over there only to find out three of the locals were attacked and each had multiple stab wounds. That was all the info we had so we figured, of course, that the Taliban was responsible.
When they brought them in, we all went to work. The guy I was helping had multiple stab wounds, including one to the top of the head. His vitals weren't to great, his O2 sats were 88%, and his AVPU was to pain. The other guy also had multiple stab wounds but was conscious and alert, so he wasn't to bad. Neither of these guys were offering any answers as to what happened and who attacked them (obviously, the first guy wasn't talking at all).
The third guy, which I was shifted to after we got the major interventions done on the first guy, had defensive wounds to his hands and a stab wound to his (L) scapula. He was easily, hands down, the guaranteed winner of this years academy award for best actor. After we had the terp,(interpretor), tell him to knock it off and act like a man we finally started getting some answers.
OK. Ready for this? Turns out this guy was the nephew of the other two who were brothers. Seems they got into an argument about their wheat field and it escalated into a knife fight! Don't know just what the problem was but once the whole clinic heard what happened it sounded like the audience at a comedy show. I guess not only do you have to worry about being attacked by the Taliban, the ANA, or the ANCop's, but you need to worry about being attacked by your own family.
Believe it or not, this gets better.
We couldn't fly these guys to KAF so the military arranged for a taxi to take them to the closest civilian hospital about 45 min away. The two brothers were the only ones bad enough to have to go. These two looked like partially wrapped mummys from some Bella Lugosi movie. They were taken to the gate where the cab was already waiting for them. As these guys did the shuffle drag towards the cab bloody and bandaged, the cab driver looked at them and took off! It was hilarious! After an extra 30 min wait the cabbie did come back and they were taken to the hospital.
Another exciting day at "As Howz-E-Madad Turns."
