An Afghani Jingle truck. All Afghani Vehicles and possessions (even their weapons) are "jingled" up. I guess it's their version of pimp my ride.Today I have a second day off in a row. This precious downtime has not been because of a light schedule, it was imposed by the doctor here at the PRT. Let me explain before some of you start to panic!
Over the past week I developed a cold and generaly felt like crap. Just as I thought I was getting better I came down yesterday with a realy bad case of the flu. I woke up in the morning and felt like I had been hit by an jingle truck (see photo). So the boys headed out on patrol and I got left behined to nurse my wounds. I finally decided to go to the medics after spending the majority of an hour on the floor in the bathroom and beleive me it wasnt pretty. I honestly haven't been sick like that in a really long time. So the doc checked me out, put me in isolation (to prevent the spreading ), gave me a shot of something to knock me out and then forced me to rehydrate or else he would have had to hook me up to an IV. Long story short after about 24 hours the worst of it has passed and I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
It is still insanely hot here but beleive it or not at nights we are starting to feel a drop in temperature. Thank God.
Besides that not much else is new here. Same thing different day. Hopefully I will have no interesting news for you all soon.
Sue & Ken: Thank You very much for the cooler, now the guys in our other truck have the same luxsury as we do! Its amazing how such small little things can make such a big impact on moral. They too now have cold water at their finger tips.
Kass & Olie: Thanks for the books and everything, it is much appreciated!
Doesn't the jingle ruin the "stealth-ness" of it all? I am half expecting rainbow rockets and drumsticks to be sold out of this. Classy.
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K.
ps. Olie had dos-equis on the weekend in honour of you.
ReplyDeleteDos Equis...........delicious!
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