Starting a new life

You are serious guy friend. You will learn so many interesting and cognitive things there. I can only wish you good luck!

Best of luck to you. Change is always a good thing, and in the words of Red Green himself,

"I'm a man, but I can change...if I have to. I guess..."

See ya around sir!

As an 11 year vet, God speed and best of luck.

Good luck kid - I'm gonna miss you around here Hope it turns out to be everything you expected!! good luck with the shaving lesson - I'm sure you'll soon be a natural at it (even if you are getting a bit of a late start ) ...And who's going to take care of the fuzzy kitty?

Hope to still see you around sometimes!!!

Well I guess I'm a civilian a little while longer than expected, dammit. I got through all my medical physicals and stuff and did good on everything, except when they did my blood pressure it was just barely over the maximum limit. So according to regulations they have to wait a while then test it another two time. The second time I was below, but on the third time I was the same as the first. So they switched from the automatic blood pressure machine to the hand pump thingamabobber, and it went from fair to waaaaay high. So the nurse took me into a private room and layed me down on a bed for about an hour and then the doctor came in and tested me with the manual blood pressure thing, and it was even freaking higher. He said I don't qualify for the army because of that, so he gave me a wavor and now twice a day for 5 days I have to go to the red cross and have it checked and they sign me off. If it goes down then the army will accept my wavor and I'll ship out, but if it doesn't then I'm *plum* out of luck. I highly doubt I can get it down because high blood pressure is hereditary on both side of my family, but I'm still cutting out all salt and all caffeine and cutting way back on red meat, and getting lots and lots of fresh vegetables. My recruiter was a surgical tech before he was a recruiter and he said to get fish oil pills too and take a couple of them a day. So my totally awesome excellent job in the army that I was having to leave on Monday so that I could finish basic training in time probably isn't going to happen for me. It is going to be a week at least until I can go back to MEPS, then a few days after that before I can ship out for basic training. What frustrates me most is that after today I am officially jobless and homeless. It's my last day at work, and I am turning in the keys to my apartment this afternoon. Looks like I'm freeloading off mom and dad for a while now!

Wow that definitely sucks. Hopefully what you are doing to reduce your blood pressure works out. Keep us posted.

I can't believe you can get so far into the process and then just get...er...dissed.

Well, atleast we get you back for a while.

And let me tell you what, I had to wait in the waiting room for 5 flipping hours for the other guy from my town to finish his stuff up. And I didn't even get put into the good waiting room, I had to sit n the one with no tv, no magazines, no pictures on the wall to look at, no windows, just a plain white room with big signs posted saying "NO SLEEPING IN WAITING AREA". That was along 5 hours, at least there were people going in and out to talk to and to eaves drop on and stuff.

It's been a long read after several weeks I'd not read a topic from General. Kc, I'd still morally support you even if you don't remember to mention me in your first post, or have totally forgotten me, staying or leaving for army. You've been a great help in here.

Good Luck!

just that would get my blood pressure up

joking aside, I think you're going about it the right way - try to eat all the right stuff and live as healthy as possible and see how it goes. If it doesn't work out, maybe a longer-term lifestyle change (healthy life, exercise, etc) could bring your pressure sufficiently down, and then you try again with the army in a year or so? ....does it work that way?

I wish you good luck in improving your military skills!

If the army doesn't work out, I have a plan B. There is a job opening in town that I am totally 110% qualified for, and it pays almost twice as much as the dead end desk job I'm in now. The downside is that I would be traveling in my own vehicle (a jeep) for about 4 to 5 days a week. Gas is all reimbursed but still that is a lot of wear and tear on my favorite 4 wheeled vehicle.

But that is only if my blood pressure doesn't go down.