Christopher Henry:  

CLASS OF 1989
Ft. knox, KY
Ribault High SchoolClass of 1989
Jacksonville, FL
Ft. knox, KY
Scott Middle SchoolClass of 1982
Ft. knox, KY

Christopher's Story

Life Hey what's up? Long time, no hear from. Man I've been looking forward to getting together with everyone. After high school, joined the military for a stint. Hung out in San Diego. Drinking age was 18 on base so I took full advantage. Weekends in Tijuana with the $0.25 Corona on Revolucion Street. PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! It was a blast, but I don't see myself joining the service again anytime soon. Consider me as part of the Homeland Defense Team. Went to Florida State after that. (I refer to this time as the Clinton years). PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! Graduated 6 years later with a degree in biological sciences and one class short of a degree in chemistry. Taught science for a year as an undergraduate. Did 2 years of molecular biology research. All work and no play sucks. Hung out with Creed before they blew up on the music scene. Recall going to bar to hear them play and being one of about ten people showing up, now they're selling multiplatinum. Weekly keg parties and bonfires in the back yard. 8 to 1 female to male ratio in Tallahassee. Sort of got caught up in all that partying to realize how long I'd overstayed my visit. Afterwards went to the Univ. of Florida. PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! (I guess some old habits are hard to break. Graduated in 2000 with M.D. Now working like a dog during my residency. No time to party (Damn). I do occasionally get flash backs to my old party days though. 2 years of this residency crap and I am already thinking retirement (anyone know tomorrow's lotto numbers give me a call). Since high school, I've met up with Brian Ward again. Has anyone seen or heard from Steve Sinnot? How about Charles Walker or Eddie Thompson? If anyone decides to get together for a reunion let me know cjh1971 at yaho (you know what I mean) I feel as if I have missed so much stuff. Everyone's married with kids. I'm jealous. NOT! My plan after this residency is to become certified in emergency medicine then work my way through law school. Afterwards, it's MONEY-TIME :) School I moved to Fort KNox in 1981. Started off at scott Elementary School. I recall hanging out with Dodd Caudill (graduated form North Hardin) and Richard Eggington. I was too young to really get into any trouble. I just played sports. Went on to Macdonald Middle School. That's where I first met Brian Ward. We'd do stupid stuff like walk along that creek. I remember going on "adventures" by taking the sewer tunnels underneath Fort Knox. Those things would travel for miles. We were too stupid to realize what we were doing at the time. We'd follow those things all the way out to the rock quarry. I remember falling off a 30 foot rocky cliff trying to follow those damn creeks. High school was great. I'd definately do it again if i had the chance. I had the advantage of having an older brother who graduated the year before so I already knew most of the upper classmen when I arrived on campus. I didn't have to go through the freshman initiation crap. I'd get invited to all the parties. House parties at Wendy Anderson's and on 5th Ave., parties at the Fort Knox Inn (I forget what it was called before that) and Motel 6. I recall sophomore year hanging with Steve Sinnott and a couple of others at Patton Museum getting drunk in the tanks. Honda Sprees. I still remember senior trip. Driving to King's Island. Getting trashed on the way. Skiing at Paoli Peaks although I wouldn't call what I was doing as skiing. More like falling at Paoli Peaks. I'm a better skier now. Powder Puff and the senior skit. We won first place. Jamming to Rob Base's "It takes two" Rated R before they turned into a bunch of gangsters. We were so stupid back then. Hey Charles Walker, Eddie Thompson, or Joe Williams what channel are you on now? Track team with Coaches Shufelt and McCoy. We were good. Basketball team. I remember trying to dunk the ball during pregame warmups and got hung on the rim. Landed flat on my back. Band Camp was a blast. Too bad I didn't take advantage of all the opportunities I had back then. I was too naive to realize how much fun it could be to stay in a coed dorm for a week without parental supervision. I recall sneaking out the house for late night booty calls and getting busted on the way back in. I remember great teachers, Ms Wahlberg and Ms. Hill. Spending plenty of afternoons and a couple of school days in detention hall. Getting suspended from school for a day for fighting Titus over a damn lunch ticket. So many memories. I'm lookng forward to hearing from everyone. College Ah college days. What I can recall of them that is. I'll be honest with you. I chose FSU for two reasons. Number 1 was the 8:1 female:male ratio and number two was the parties. My first experience at FSU was during my freshman year in high school. I went to visit my brother for homecoming. We hung out in the dorms . All I remember is having my pants down around my ankles puking from being so drunk. It was a great time. I was hooked after that. I enjoyed myself tremendously. FSU was not designated the #1 party school for nothing. We're proud of that title. Football Saturdays were the best. Wasted before noon, watch the team kick ass, then party all night. I had become so skilled at partying that I managed to work my school schedule around my partying. Classes between 11:00 am and 2:00 p.m. so as to have enough time to sleep off the hangover. Then study/work from 3:00 p.m. until 10 or 11. Then out to the club, bars, and house parties. I preferred house parties because there was no cover charge. Just chip in a couple dollars towards the keg fund and drink all you want. If you get tired of one house, go next door to the next house party. Despite all this partying I still managed to regularly make the Dean's List. Then off to UF for med school. It was OK there but not nearly as fun as at FSU. Women were not as good looking. There were fewer house parties. They seemed to enjoy the club scene more. The best part of my time at UF w...Expand for more
as watching them get spanked by FSU every year in football. Workplace Working at Grady Hospital in Atlanta for my residency. This place is a trip. I learned that patients lie all the time to their doctors. If you believed everything they say, no one smokes, everyone drinks 1-2 alcohol beverages only on special occasions, and no one uses any type of illicit drugs. In reality most people don't even know the names of their medications so you know they're not taking them every day. It seems like cocaine is in the air here because 100% of the patient's I see with chest pain deny drug use, yet when the urine is screened it shows up in about 10% of them. And everyone is looking for a reason to sue. Consider this scenario. Person goes to bar and drinks 10-12 drinks then hops behind the wheel and run into a wall at a high rate of speed. He's rushed to the hospital bleeding and barely alive. Doctors do everyting to save him only to have patient die of complications from surgery or infection. What happens next? Family sues the doctors. At least in America that's what happens next. It's not the patients fault he died, it's got to be someone elses fault. That's what the attorney believe. The sad part is juries fall for it. Then juries get ridiculous with their awards they issue because they believe we're making the same big money that pro athletes make. The current system of malpractice law is unconstitutional. I am entitled to a trial where I'm judged by a jury of my peers. In malpractice law it's a doctor being judged by a jury of patients. Lawyers make sure no doctors or healthcare professionals will be on that jury. Other than that though, this job is not all bad. There are those occasional patients who really want to live. They take their meds as directed. They don't eat like there is no tomorrow. They show up for their scheduled appointments. For them, this job is truly enjoyable. Maybe the problem I'm having has to do with working in an inner city hospital. Perhaps I'll feel better when I leave residency and see patients who have a different perspective about their lives. My job is not all that bad. Most stuff can be handled in less that 3-4 hours and the rest of the time I'm sitting around watching TV, checking out the internet, or reading. I still plan on getting a law degree though so I can protect myself from lawyers trying to get rich off of me. This is the only country where people can sue you and if they lose their case, oh well. The law needs to be changed so that in civil cases against an individual or small business, the loser pays the other person's expenses. How many times have we heard of people getting sued and winning only to end up bankrupt after having to pay all the lawyer fees defending themselves. I'm researching more ways for doctors to sue malpractice attorneys who lose their suits against doctors. Make THEM pay MY malpractice insurance for a while and they'll see what I'm going through. It can and should happen. There is legal precedent. Afterall, shouldn't I be expected to be compensated for the time and money I'll spend having to defend myself against frivolous lawsuits. It's time attornies assume responsibility for their actions just the same as they expect us to assume responsibility for ours. The irony is that I also plan to practice malpractice law myself. I've seen enough in my brief career to know that I'd make a killing as a malpractice attorney especially given my medical background. Unlike other malpractice attorneys with no medical/science experience who only win 1.5% of all cases they initiate, I expect to win most cases I initiate. I'll also practice personal injury law. Areas where I have some expertise. Here is a hint for everyone considerig getting sick. If the hospital you visit happens to be a teaching hospital don't get sick or have surgery in July-September. The doctor treating you will most likely be fresh out of med school and won't know diddly-squat. You'll be dying right in front of his face and he will be too stupid to realize what's happening. Military Military life sucked. People ylling at you all the time. Idiots as your supervisors. Common sense is not a part of the protocol in the military. They always find ways to make simple jobs difficult. I must admit though that those guys kicked butt in the last two battles. Just don't ask me to go to the next one. Let Bush's kids fight for once. I will say that I did make great friends there. Life in San Diego was excellent. Beautiful city. Where else can one go to the beach in the morning, skiing at noon and riding in the desert all in one day? Then there was Mexico. Great times south of the border. Just don't get too carried away or you'll find yourself in a Mexican jail. There are people locked up there for years simply for jaywalking. The cops are corrupt. If you don't have enough money to pay them off they'll arrest you for anything. Never keep all of your money in your wallet, because when you do get stopped, they'll ask for everyhing you have in your wallet. If you don't have a little extra stashed away in your sock you'll never be able to make it back to the good ole U.S.A. I recall hangig out at Pacific Beach at the bonfire parties until sunrise then rushing back to base to make it to muster with a massive hangover. I found Dexter Ingraham since leaving BOOST. He's working in D.C. with the Heritage Foundation. It was a trip seeing him on the Pat Robertson show. Here's Dexter with the ultra conservative Heritage Foundation. I recall him in San Diego as the partying animal. The first guy to try and pick up some chick in San Diego or Tijuana. Always with a drink in his hand. Now he's giving speeches on the Christian Broadcast Network. Talk about 180 degrees. I have not heard from Antonio Harley, Tony Giles, or Nico Gutierrez since they went to Utah but would love to. The best part about my military experience was the great group of friends I made while there.
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