Funny looking back at it!!!!! You need a Chit.
Not so funny at the time but there is a sort of humour in the event.
Yours truely, 16 year old Boy Entrant in 1957 Cosford. Fulton Block
A Wednesday afternoonn "Sports Afternoon".
Mid afternoon prior to last Tech training session of the day.
Started to feel very ill, Letting loose at both ends!!!!!!!
Said to the lads I cant make it , I'm going special Sick.
Normal procedure was to get a "Chit" from the decip. office to be allowed to go special sick.
Problem, Sports afternoon no one around to issue said "Chit"
Feeling really very ill and in pain, lower stomach area.
Eventually I decided to make my way to the Sick Quarters about a mile away.
It took me ages to hobble the distance to the Sick Bay.
By the time I got there I was doubled up and could hardly walk.
Rings bell, Orderly arrives, quote "Where's your Chit", can't go special sick without Chit.
Explained how bad I felt but still said go back and get a Chit, still insisting on a Chit even though no one available to issue the "X%&+ing" thing.
By this time I was literally laying down on the doorstep in agony.
He was just about to close the door when a voice from way back inside said
in a bored/irritated fashion "oh, you better come in and I will look at you".
MO takes less than one minute to diagnose accute appendicitis.
PANIC stations, rushed to the hospital at Cosford , on the slab within 30 Mins.
told afterwards it was near to Bursting.
The saga didn't end there, wound went sceptic, they should have put a "Drain" in, discharged with 2 weeks sick leave. again could hardly walk
due to pain of infection.
First night at home woke up to pure bliss "No Pain" but bed covered in blood.
The wound had opened up and discharged all its muck.
So again rushed to Local city hospital (Bath) where they fixed me up , but not without a big confrontation with the RAF Medical bods at Cosford!!!!!!!.
Final outcome was a total of five weeks out of training so had to be Backclassed to catch up .
Often wondered what my life would have panned out like if I had passed out with my original entry, different first posting etc etc etc.
OPF
Last edited by Old Photo.Fanatic; 18th May 2010 at 23:34.