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Squeeeeee!!! Green's excited again!! Tomorrow I send in the paperwork to start my Chirurgeon training!!! A friend of mine has been one of the only active Chirurgeons in the Barony (she's the the official Barony Chirurgeon, in fact...), and it's been really hard on her at events, since others in the Kingdom rarely volunteer to be officially on duty at the camping events. Which, of course, means that she can't do many fun things in the evening, in case someone gets hurt. Now I'll get to help alleviate the stress! Yay!

Anybody have any advice? Any weird injury stories?

These aren't so much weird as just scary.

At SeaDogs 2 years ago at The Rouges encampment I believe(though I'll have to check with Master Elexi) there was of course some heavy drinking going on. I'm not sure what the issue was but someone had a knife out for something and they ended up nearly slicing their finger off. Luckily our friend Aedain wasn't deployed ATM and he is House Whispers chiurgeon. He rushed over and helped and everything was ok ^_^

Now this next one has become rather something of a joke between everyone who knows Master Elexi.

At SeaDogs THREE years ago(notice s**t happens at SDN.) This was before I met Elexi. He was doing his normal partying thing and was given a Girl Scout Cookie shot by Captain(?) Zorgon(I think...again I will have to check with him.) This Girl Scout Cookie shot was a "thin mints" one so it had Peppermint Schnapps in it. Well the thing is Elexi is DEATHLY allergic to mint so he took the shot and almost immediately went in to anapalactic(sp?) shock. Luckily there was a young lady in the encampment that is allergic to bees so she keeps an epi with her at all times. She ran off and grabbed it and saved Elexi. The next day Master Elexi decided to stay instead of going home like he had originally planned. At this time I was part of the HMS Dragons Blood so he came wandering into our encampment to talk to Captain Tristan and I gave him a hug and back rub and such loves as that. Thats how Elexi almost had to die for us to meet. And now everyone asks "is there mint in it?" when he's going to sample someone elses alcohol at events.

Learn to think outside the box. Look at what you learn as if you have never seen or known anything about SCA.

oooh oooooooh, I got to treat my first battle wound this weekend! A fighter came in with a super nasty gash on his thumb from landing on his gauntlet funny. It was really deep and should have had stitches, but he was stubborn and wanted to just be bandaged well enough to go back out onto the field. I could see the connective tissue and everything when he pulled back the skin so that I could squirt the antiseptic wash into it. It was awesome!! I got to have my armor removal class too, which basically just served to boost my confidence (I used to go to practices all the time to be social, and fighters always had me help them with their armor...), but it was cool nonetheless. Woohoo!! I now have two signatures to go till I'm warranted!

thanks!! mrgreen