The whole process took about 3 hours. 3 fucking hours for an ankle brace and a light duty chit.
And now I have to get on top of my work again. (like that will be hard,m but still...)
(UBT calls Motrin vitamin M because the military docs hand it out for EVERYTHING)
Motrin, and drink water. The cure for everything is motrin and water, cause everyone knows when you get sick in the military, its cause you are dehydrated.
I kid you not. I had a 105 degree fever and they sent me home with a bottle of motrin pills and instructions to drink more.
Turns out I had something akin to phneumonia.
There are a few deaths in the military every year because the soldier drank so much water his/her kidneys couldn't actually process it fast enough and the osmosis from all the extra water in the blood causes the red blood cells to explode.
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Nae had this to say about Pirotess:
Did they give you vitamin M?(UBT calls Motrin vitamin M because the military docs hand it out for EVERYTHING)
When I was growing up on Mather, I was very accident prone.
Baseball bat to the head? 800mg Ibuprofin
Dropped a railroad cinder on my finger? 800mg Ibuprofin
Fell off my bike, 20 feet down a ravine, landing ARMPIT FIRST on a sharp pokey stick?
800mg Ibuprofin.
I was immune to Motrin by age 12.
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*Tal* said this about your mom:
When I was growing up on Mather, I was very accident prone.Baseball bat to the head? 800mg Ibuprofin
This explains so much... 
Strippers are people too; naked people who may be willing to pleasure you for a price you negotiate later behind the curtain of the VIP room. Besides, they're already dead inside.
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Trillee stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
This explains so much...
STFR
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*Tal* impressed everyone with:
I was immune to Motrin by age 12.
I can top you on that one.
I am immune to Novocaine. THAT one hurt when they found it out.
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*Tal* had this to say about John Romero:
STFR
ILYTSC! 
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Trillee wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
ILYTSC!
ZQVXTITZ?
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Tal At Work got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
ZQVXTITZ?
OU812A?
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Nobody really understood why Kaglaaz How'ler wrote:
OU812A?
KMWYW
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Dr. Gee said:
There are a few deaths in the military every year because the soldier drank so much water his/her kidneys couldn't actually process it fast enough and the osmosis from all the extra water in the blood causes the red blood cells to explode.
Why do I think this is bullshit?
Basically, its when you drink so much water the saline content of your body is washed out. Its the extreme opposite of dewhydration; instead of having too little water, you can so much your body cannot regulate it.
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Verily, Densetsu doth proclaim:
Why do I think this is bullshit?
Its not, both Azakias and got Geeorn. You can get water poisoning if you drink a large amount of water in a very short time without eating anything that has salt. Conversely, you can get water poisoning if you continually drink a lot over the period over several days or months while not eating a lot. Its rare in both cases and the latter is usually preventable, but water poisoning is real.
If you cant feel it, you can work.
They want you to work.
So they drug you up before sending you back out to work on all the dangerous equipment.
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Azakias enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
As long as they can make it so you cant feel it, then there is no issue.If you cant feel it, you can work.
They want you to work.
So they drug you up before sending you back out to work on all the dangerous equipment.
Which is why the majority of peacetime deaths are accidents... a doped up person doesn't need to be using heavy machinery, it even clearly states that on the bottles of the stronger Motrin/Tylenol/Codone products.
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This one time, at Azakias camp:
Technically, you CAN die from water poisoning. I dont think thats how it goes though.Basically, its when you drink so much water the saline content of your body is washed out. Its the extreme opposite of dehydration; instead of having too little water, you can so much your body cannot regulate it.
How very correct.
I managed to do this while backpacking in the Grand Canynon on the way from the bottom. I think I drank almost 3 gallons with only a breakfast in me... I was feeling shitty by the end of the trip... luckily I had a shitload of saltines up at the top waiting for me to eat.
Back in Boot Camp, I had a 105 fever. The next morning, I took the last 2 of the 800 mg ibprofin I had, visited medical, and got my SIQ (sick in quarters) chit signed off.
That night was the night of battlestations, an ordeal where recruits are required to run, scream, yell, do push ups, and generally all the gung ho crazy stuff you think of when you think of well, battle. Recruits are up for roughly 48 to 60 hours straight, as well.
I ran battlestations(WITHOUT painkillers), barely off of a life threatening fever, so hoarse ytou couldnt hear me if there was just you and me in a room, and to top it all off, I had pulled a muscle in my upper leg, two nights previous.
I was in tears by the sheer amount of pain I was in, but I passed, dammit.
And you think of stuff like that, its just a training excersize. In actual war, which I have not been exposed to, you have to do stuff like that every day, only its not something you can fall out of cause its too hard. I think thats why the military demands so much out of people even when they are ill, because thats when you are at the worst, and if you can still do that kind of thing when you are tired, run down, and hungry, then you are even better when you are at your peak.
Military medical still sucks ass though. 
