I'm on my way!!!! I'm going home! Because it's incredibly difficult to flight out of my FOB due to wind and other weather, I was scheduled to come to the big base 3 days early. At first I cringed but it's not always a bad thing being around the bosses. You tend to forget they were slugs like you at one time, especially when they send out memos and re-arrange spreadsheets enough for you to yank every bit of your hair out and theirs too, if they had some. But, this is a business and we all want to do the best job possible and in continuity with each other. It's makes everyones job that much easier.
Speaking of work today, I had a guy hooked up to a machine that reads his hearts electrical activity and we had a "Missile Alert." The tones went off and I asked, Is that for real? He looked as if he was going to jump off that bed and run. My partner replies, "Settle down you two".Turns out it was a test/false alarm. I was busy and focused so I didn't hear that part and apparently neither did the patient cause his heart was jumping off the paper. Funny stuff!
It's great to be back with my buddy's Zee and Colt. I even got to bunk with Zee so my fear of brown recluse spiders hopefully will be a miss. I heard they were crawling all over KAF. We talked and laughed. I can't tell you how much they are the nicest of goof around friends. In fact I'm pranking Colt as we speak. He wanted me to put an out of order sign on the general use bathroom and I did. It read," Something died in here. Stay out. and in small letters it said, Colt was here last, just saying." Ofcourse Colt never came out and the bathroom was really broke down and someone used it...oh my, what a mess!
More fun was meeting the new doctors and seeing my old friends. It is very much happy times here at KAF. I've done the tourist thing and ate at the boardwalk and shopped at the PX and generally spent time with my buddies...I worked too, I did!! I've seen friends that I met from other parts of Afghanistan here too- what a surprise! Even I am starting to think I know everyone!
For example, my buddy Alex is here! Yeah! It's about time I seen someone that I talked into coming with... We're far away and it's wonderful to have someone near that is very familar. He showed me around the new clinic for physicals- I'd like to even stael the new guy for my base. He has loads of knowledge and is lots of fun.
And full circle back to fun and home...I can't wait to be home! I'm on my way!!!
