I have not written for a few days
because 1. we went on a survival training course/camping trip and 2. I've been pretty laid up with a gastroenteritis that finally has nearly had enough of me as well. This weekend we went out with an ex-paratrooper and wilderness survival instructor who taught us how to start fires with anything from flint and steal to steel wool and a maglite flashlight. He also taught us how
to make our own snares for trapping small rodents (very useful in the Bronx) up to jack rabbits - check out my figure four trap which can be expanded large enough to crush a deer (no, I would never!).
On Sunday we learned how to navigate as well.I was out of commission for the rest of sunday and I missed all of Monday's snake and spider bite activities.
Today, was marine medicine day. We went to the Albuquerque aquarium after hours and learned about dive medicine, poisonous cone shells, sea urchins, jelly fish, fugu, and sting rays among others. Whatever stung you, apparently, peeing on it, doesn't work.
Everything was fine until a diver came up too fast and shot an air embolism to her brain. In this rescue scenario, we had to think about transportation to a hyperbaric chamber.
Then, after a fulfilling lecture on the parasites and bacteria found in sushi, we went out to -- where? -- a Japanese sushi restaurant where the desert city of Albuquerque serves its finest fresh fish. As my first full meal in 3 days, I did pretty well. Actually, we learned that fresh fish is more dangerous than frozen fish and indeed against FDA regulations. Let's just hope it stayed frozen.
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