Dear Readers,,,Very tired tonight,,,Interesting week at TCC Tues wear a sherrifs badge and bandanna,,,wed red white and blue day,,,thurs wear a shirt with TCC on it and today Hawaian theme I wore a shirt with palm trees ect and I got a plastic pineapple mug to drink out of plus that thing they put over your head?? next week back to regular clothing,,and friday is wear red for the troops in Iraq and afganistan...Phillip Meyer S/sgt ret
JMJFort Meade Md.
Army Hospital
Phillip Meyer S/sgt Ret.
Hospital June /July 52
My first days in the Army hospital were filled with days where first I was hot then I would get cold,
I was in a ward all filled with Malaria patients, One day a nurse made fun of me..Her remarks not very nice..But when she left it was she who was mocked by the patients....A period of the time in the hospital was spent getting rid of the worms had to take pills we nick name football and basketballs.They were big
and if you look closely they did resemble a football or a basketball.....At one point I was able to get out of bed and go to the hospital mess hall.I was in for a shock,As I passed a container of food I found my sense of smell was much stronger. I could not take the smell so I went outside the mess hall and ate on the steps
As time went on my sense of smell went back to normal,Now I was offered a job to show movies to patients.They put me in a class to learn how to operate the movie projector,.So a couple of times I showed movies also learn to play pinochle with other patients....Then when they thought I was better I went back to my company.I found items from my footlocker had been stolen while I was in the hospital,,
2053rd Supply Co.
I got my first chance to go on pass.It turn out to be an adventure.There was three of us hitch hiking.A car came to a stop it look like it took a long time to stop.We got in the sun was going down,..As we took ff the driver a young man said he has problems with the brakes so "Please tell him a few blocks ahead of time where we wanted to get off..Then as he put on the lights the radio came on..when he played with the radio
the lights came on..The car made all type noises..We were driving in a nightmare,We reached town there was a street that seem empty we said stop here.A couple of blocks later the car stopped and we got out..
My next pass I called a relative of my Foster parents, The first ones I had.She sounded sweet on the phone.So all spruced up I went to her house.As she open the door her little dog bit me..And for her nothing came of my date,,
One night I thought I had not said the rosary in a long time..( A prayer),Once I started I thought about going over seas again so I put in my paper work,,,I would be going to Europe,,,
Phillip Meyer S/Sgt Ret..
