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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Amazing coincidence! I also came down with pneumonia after two bouts of upper respiratory disease during Basic Training. I came about as close to being recycled as someone can come without actually being recycled. After getting out of the hospital the second time for upper respiratory infection, I had to to the track qualification and couldn't make it 1/4 the way around the track. The next day I was feeling better, and for punishment, the drill sergeant made me run up and down the platoon as they ran the 7 miles to the rifle range. The following day I was in the hospital with pneumonia. I suppose the only reason I wasn't recycled was because spinal meningitis was going around Fort Jackson at the time and people were literally falling out every day. Another recycled recruit would probably have been a political embarrassment.
Did you have to take any cold water showers to reduce the fever? Weren't they fun?
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I had really bad bronchitis and kept going on sick call. they only gave me robitussin which is NOT effective against that! when I passed out in the mess hall and cut my leg wide open and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance they said "oh gee! she's really sick!" at the hospital they discovered it had moved into pnuemonia. I was in the hospital for 10 days, coincidentally enough during a measles outbreak and that's the ward I ended up on. fun times were NOT had by all!
they would make me sit in the corridor dinking ice water until my temp came down. all I wanted to do was sleep and I fell asleep in the chair a lot. I guess that was around the time that the kinder gentler Army was coming into being.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
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we have ferries bumping the dock quite often here and it never makes the news. then again rarely are people injured.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
I think that seals it. You two are twins separated at birth!
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someone's Mom is going to be surprised!
