For those Navy Hospital Corpsmen who served in the United States Navy and/or the United States Marine Corps.
Hats Off to All my fellow Corpsman!
This is my first day on here and I am so pleased and proud to find it.I spent my time 1969-1974 active, from Orlando Boot to San Diego Corps School, CHELSEA Naval Hospital, Senior Corpsman of Ward 14, Dirty Orthopedics and then Camp Lenjeune 2nd Amtracs, Force Troops, Camp Lejeune.Have been in healthcare ever since as a Registered Respiratory Therapist. I gave my first breathing treatment in 1970......Thank you All for your Service!!!Curt Hiller, HM3
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Redhead?? Nope! She wasn't there in 73&74! Only incident "I" remember of "tunnel touching" was a brunette wave! At least she wasn't a nurse and wearing rank! Seems I remember a few cases of fraternizing that went on then! They certainly did not help the situation when they made the enlisted barracks coed! Standing watch was never easy in the Summer! They always had those huge windows on the porches wide open as they slept in their birthday suits!
Ah, the tunnels! There was more than one time a delivery went bad and we had to gurney the patient, running through the tunnels, up through the main lobby and onto the elevator up to the OR for a Cesarean! I forget though what we used to yell? Was it "MAKE A HOLE"? Or, was that used somewhere else?
One thing it took a long time for me to live down was something I was saddled with being good at! It got me transferred for a short time to the General Surgery ward. For some reason I was skilled at inserting urethral catheters! So, I guess I earned the moniker "Pe,,ker Ch...ker"!
Sorry to take the discussion "off topic" just figured this was more interesting! lol
Wow...totally was not at all in my memory until you mentioned that tunnel. I remember running into a Wave and another HM getting it on in that tunnel. They were on top of a laundry cart. She was a redhead...67-68...anybody remember her?
not only do I remember glass, heparinized syringes, I worked in CSR at NH GLakes for awhile. One of my jobs was to RE-SHARPEN needles!!
Jim
How about doing a dip stick for sugar and Specific Gravity on a urine sample?
What about the long tunnel that went down to the Dependant Hospital ?
Yes, I remember doing blood gases with heparinized glass syringes. I also remember the in-line IV drip meters, but I don't ever remember them being all that accurate. NRMC Orlando '75-'79.
And I remember using the glass IV bottles and taping the rates.
Wow Jack! You're expecting a lot from petrified brain cells!
Although, I do remember back at Chelsea being sent across the hall from the Nursery to a little closet that was our mini-lab to run a bilirubin and hematocrit. I stood there for a while looking at the centrifuge and the rest of the stuff and asked myself, "did I learn this at Corps school? Or, did I sleep through that class?"!! Good thing the procedure charts were still on the wall!
That was 3 years ago, get on with your life.
Do you guys remember when someone would bring a Pedi-Drip to use on an IV and it was so accurate, and doing Blood Gases with a heparinized glass syringe.
Doc's
Remember we are CORPSman and NOT CORPSEman.
As well as CORPSwoman.
Is anyone else as pissed off over obama's comment as I am?
How many remember that the term CORPSEman was meant to degrade our profession, How many of you remember the days that we were NOT permitted to wear our uniforms when traveling while on leave?
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