In honor of someone we all know. Please describe your worst hospital experience.

[LogDog75]

19. 1975, AF Basic Training

I enlisted in the AF on an 31, 1975 and went to basic training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, TX. On Saturday, the sixth day of basic, I went to sick call with a 104 temperature. I was take to the base hospital and stayed there for two with infected sinuses. The drugs didn't know down the infection so it was decided they'd drain them.

What they did was to have me sit up straight and they put a tube with a long needle in it on the roof of my mouth. Then, they took a metal mallet and hit the bottom of the needle hard driving it through the roof of my mouth into my sinus cavity. Once in, they removed the metal tube and attached a rubber hose to the needle and shot sterile solution into my sinus cavity. I had to blow hard through my nose to expel the solution. Once they completed that sinus cavity, they did the same with the other sinus cavity. After a couple of days, I hadn't gotten better so the repeated the procedure. After the second time, I said never again. Fortunately. my sinus infection cleared up and I never had to repeat the experience.