Ow! My nose!

So my first week of annual training in the guard was all Combat Life Saver class, which I took active side probably 5 times. So I really kinda just blew off the class. I sat all the way in the back and goofed off with the others in my unit, who were also all prior service and had also all taken the class multiple times. Not a bad idea for me. Or the other 2 E-4s. But the Sgt who was in charge of us should have been upfront. He comes off as a really smart guy, really! But when the test hit, well, lets just say it wasn’t pretty.

As for me, I aced the test, got my IV stick on the first try, and did well enough that 2 others who just wanted IVs, but couldn’t find anyone that could hit them, including the Medics, asked me to get them and I did them too! So 3 IVs in 3 tries. I offered myself as a vein donor because towards the end there were lots of people who had missed 8-10 times and we were running out of veins. So I volunteered myself and got stuck 8 times. And since I was kind of walking them through the procedure and actually put my own catheter in once, I was only missed twice. 6 successful IVs!

But last of all is this little beauty. Talk about uncomfortable.