Comments on: A (small) pox upon me! http://hyperdad.com/2009/02/04/a-small-pox-upon-me/ Piling more on my plate for over 40 years. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:26:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Paul http://hyperdad.com/2009/02/04/a-small-pox-upon-me/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Paul Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:02:16 +0000 http://hyperdad.com/?p=483#comment-91 Tony: no superglue in the first aid kit. They don't want us putting people back together - our training focuses on keeping the parts in a pile (e.g. don't stuff the guts back into someone if they're hanging out) and let someone else reassemble. Thanks, Patricia, for being even nastier than me. Powerpoint...ewwww! Tony: no superglue in the first aid kit. They don’t want us putting people back together – our training focuses on keeping the parts in a pile (e.g. don’t stuff the guts back into someone if they’re hanging out) and let someone else reassemble.

Thanks, Patricia, for being even nastier than me. Powerpoint…ewwww!

]]> By: Patricia http://hyperdad.com/2009/02/04/a-small-pox-upon-me/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Patricia Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:02:38 +0000 http://hyperdad.com/?p=483#comment-90 My smallpox scab just fell off today, yay! 3 weeks, 3 days after I was stuck. I can now work out in a tank top (not allowed) or use the fitness center's towel service (which no longer exists since all the towels were stolen) or use the hot tub (which DOES exist and is still in service). Yes, there's a hot tub here. I'll have to don my skirted swimsuit and pay a visit sometime. All the stuff you read about with the pus, blistering, oozing, etc. Yes, yes and yes. It's grosser than gross. Invest in some good-sized CLOTH band-aids. When the wound drains, you don't want the goo sealed up in a waterproof band-aid. I also appreciated the cloth band-aids for working out -- the first week was supposed to be super-sealed and seeing my sweat get all stuck in there was so foul. Your Expeditionary Combat Skills training seems much more organized and relevant than mine seemed to be at Offutt. Our POW treatment stuff was a Powerpoint presentation. The hand-to-hand combat training (to include practicing kicking guys in the crotch - my victim is now the OIC at the Balad BWS) was cool, but less relevant than perhaps getting some more Powerpoint 2007 Warrior training. I'm definitely putting my Powerpoint skills to the test here -- macros, connecting single Excel spreadsheet entries to multiple slides and files...phew! Sweating just thinking about it... I was also the senior ranking member of my class of 70 personnel, but that fact only came up one time -- folks had to know to contact me if they were going to be sick. I didn't get any guidance on what to do with that information, and no one was sick (to my knowledge). Great post, thanks for sharing. My smallpox scab just fell off today, yay! 3 weeks, 3 days after I was stuck. I can now work out in a tank top (not allowed) or use the fitness center’s towel service (which no longer exists since all the towels were stolen) or use the hot tub (which DOES exist and is still in service).

Yes, there’s a hot tub here. I’ll have to don my skirted swimsuit and pay a visit sometime.

All the stuff you read about with the pus, blistering, oozing, etc. Yes, yes and yes. It’s grosser than gross. Invest in some good-sized CLOTH band-aids. When the wound drains, you don’t want the goo sealed up in a waterproof band-aid. I also appreciated the cloth band-aids for working out — the first week was supposed to be super-sealed and seeing my sweat get all stuck in there was so foul.

Your Expeditionary Combat Skills training seems much more organized and relevant than mine seemed to be at Offutt. Our POW treatment stuff was a Powerpoint presentation. The hand-to-hand combat training (to include practicing kicking guys in the crotch – my victim is now the OIC at the Balad BWS) was cool, but less relevant than perhaps getting some more Powerpoint 2007 Warrior training. I’m definitely putting my Powerpoint skills to the test here — macros, connecting single Excel spreadsheet entries to multiple slides and files…phew! Sweating just thinking about it…

I was also the senior ranking member of my class of 70 personnel, but that fact only came up one time — folks had to know to contact me if they were going to be sick. I didn’t get any guidance on what to do with that information, and no one was sick (to my knowledge).

Great post, thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Tony http://hyperdad.com/2009/02/04/a-small-pox-upon-me/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Tony Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:56:01 +0000 http://hyperdad.com/?p=483#comment-89 "We simulated the genital search and the ass crack check (”just slide your hand through there like you’re swiping an ATM card”)" eewwww... Man, that's nasty. I'm afraid my weapon would accidentally discharge in the direction of the prisoner if I was ordered to do that. The quickclot video was pretty cool. Well, maybe not so cool for the pig. At first I thought it was a cyanocrylate (super glue)product. I nearly whacked off one of my fingers building a RC airplane years ago. Poured some cyanocrylate glue on the wound and was good to go. “We simulated the genital search and the ass crack check (”just slide your hand through there like you’re swiping an ATM card”)” eewwww… Man, that’s nasty. I’m afraid my weapon would accidentally discharge in the direction of the prisoner if I was ordered to do that.

The quickclot video was pretty cool. Well, maybe not so cool for the pig. At first I thought it was a cyanocrylate (super glue)product. I nearly whacked off one of my fingers building a RC airplane years ago. Poured some cyanocrylate glue on the wound and was good to go.

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