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Any phone calls yet?
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Permalink Reply by shannonlee123 on
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Tank's mom-
Awesome for you! LOL If I would have thought of it I would have made sure my son left off a few numbers too!! I was just wondering ... kind of hoping I would hear today BUT not yet...
I'm sure our boys are rockin' it better than we mom's are at this point. Sigh...
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It's hard, there isn't any doubt. I realized I have to be strong, stronger than I thought I could be because he needs to focus on what he's doing and not be worried about me and what's going on at home. He's a rock and I don't want to be his Achillies heal!
Nights are the worst for me!
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HOO YAH!
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Permalink Reply by Maja/Ship 09 Div 16 on
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Tank's Mom - I'm a worry wart, too! Haven't received any calls. I was on the US Navy RTC sight and there was mention we'd receive a phone call if our SR failed a training requirement. My reaction was "well, great...just when I thought I'd be hearing from my girl and just happy to hear her voice" now I'm all freaked out with the ol' "what if" the phone call is not so good news. Don't know if I should be looking forward to the phone call or not. If I would just hear something so I'd have a tiny idea as to how she is. Wish I had never read that on the RTC sight. I was doing just fine with the "no news is good news" thing.
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Permalink Reply by My2Sailors on
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The closest I've gotten to a phone call is last week when a corpsman called & told me he was sitting beside my daughter & asked what kind of reaction she had to penicillin.
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My2Sailors -
EGADS - now that's a phone call you don't want right? Hope she was okay!
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I think she is fine, she has never been given penicillin before because her brother is allergic to it & their peditrician thought it was better to be safe than sorry. We really don't know if she is allergic to it or not. I guess we'll find out. When my son went through bc last year he knocked out the corpsman who was trying to give him the peanut butter shot because he wouldn't believe him that he was allergic to it, his recruiter had not sent his medical records proving it. The funny thing is that we were stationed at Great Lakes when he had his reaction to it & his medical records were actually there.
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WOW! I'm a nurse and I know that's crazy dangerous for a person with allergies. The corpsman deserved to be knocked out then punished for stupidity! I hope your son didn't get into trouble because that is negligent behavior on the part of the Navy.
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He did, he went to bc as an E3 & the busted him to an E1 & told him he would have to wait an extra 9 weeks before he could strike for E2. They said that he should have handled it a different way than with violence. Everything worked out though, he is now on a submarine & will be an E3 in December. Maybe because of his actions they have started listening to recruits more & not just dismissing it when someone tells them they are allergic.
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Permalink Reply by Sara Ship 07 Div 012 on
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Is there penicillin in the peanut butter shot? My son is allergic to penicillin, which he double checked with me at meps - before they left for Great Lakes. I will have to ask him if they gave him that or not.
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Permalink Reply by sdees3 on
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We receiived the first call the night he got there 10/5 and then we got another call on 10/7 he said they got another call but didnt have much time. We are hoping for a call this Sunday.
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None from mine. Ship 09 DIV 13 Just a note on the back of his form letter (which was great!) Thank you to the Nice Petty Officer who allowed them to do that. It means so much to us worry wart moms.
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