Note to self-I'm old...

I had an eye problem this morning. I just couldn't see going to work. Doing the job of four people with slow internet did me in. Plus someone kept calling my cell phone with a wrong number . Except for the emergency that I almost didn't answer because I thought that it was my new Afghani friend. I did see that it was the clinic number so I answered. Bill was at the clinic so he took care of it but I went up there to make sure that  everything was good. And it was; and I was kicked out of my own clinic, so I went back to bed. That'll show 'em. Except for my new onset of insomnia. I could not physically make myself go to work. I was physically and mentally beat. I could barely talk to E on Skype. She must of thought that I was having a stroke. I thought that I was having a stroke. Except that would involve energy, which I had none of.
We are the hub for people coming and going on RnR. As they say at Delta,"If you're going to Hell or honolulu, you have to change planes in Atlanta." Well, if you are coming or going from Afghanistan, you gotta come to KAF. And Karki will put you to work. Even if it's your last day here. Gerald, one of our Medics had finished his year here. It was the day before he left to go on the freedom bird. We got an ambulance call. He jumped in took care of the patient, including in the clinic. Including changing his pants and cleaning him up after an "accident" from a seizure. Up to 15 minutes before he had to go to his flight briefing. This is the caliber of people that I work with.Why they let me in is anybody's guess.
I received a call from one of the medics about an early morning patient that woke him up. He had an ear ache. It was before sick call but the FOB medics will see you at almost anytime. He said it felt like someone was scratching his ear drum. He asked the patient if his ear felt scratchy. He said,"No it feels like something is scratching." J looked in his ear and saw something moving. He was able to grab it and get it out and put it in a urine specimen cup. There just happened to be an Army entomologist visiting the base so he took the bug to show him. It was a Red Army ant. (The commies are everywhere) A queen.
All together now,"Ewewwwwwwww..."