It's lunch time now. I spent most of morning getting every cubic centimeter checked by the doc. He started with the simple things like heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, temprature, and oxygen in blood.
then they started getting painful.
I had six vials of blood drawn and a mouth swab, as well as peeing in a cup.
This was all before seven in the morning. I was sent to breakfast, and I have to admit I was a little woozy after donating to my career a few hundred milliliters of blood to the cause.
After breakfast was a full chest xray, ultrasonic scans of my joints and muscles of my limbs. I then had to get a eye exam, hearing test. I started getting sick of being poked and prodded I asked the doc why this was going on. Here's that conversation.
"why do you need to bleed me out and wire me up to every machine? I think that if I'm not sick now I will be soon." (by this time I was getting wired into the EKG)
Doctor Frisane "I'm surprised you haven't asked sooner, We need to know every physical characteristic and possible condition since many could not show up until it's way too late and everyone gets killed. There are many things we can cure now rather than later before they have a chance to becoming a problem, but others are physical aliments that won't be fixed and we have to medically discharge you"
"So I could be unjacked by something as simple as a cough?"
"Nope we will get you the best treatment for anything we find after your time in the shark tank?"
Now apparently the "shark tank" is your first training and testing phase. My recruiter told me "The first phase is the easiest and hardest thing you will do. Everything after that first phase gets harder, but you will be better equipped to handle those phases of training.
I don't know why didn't call it the "shark tank" maybe it's a newer term?
"so what's the shark tank?" I asked.
"you'll find out soon enough" she smiled wickedly as she started up the EKG machine and had me flex my fingers and arms.
Why is my life being run be matriarchs?
In other news Jose walking over. For a recovering spaceman he seems pretty chipper.
talk later at the end of the day.
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