Knee Deep in the Hooah!

If Bryan had not had such a serious injury he would have graduated yesterday. Today, right now, at this moment we would have been packing up the car at the Uchee Creek chalet we would have stayed in last night…. and I would be bringing him home today for a time of reuniting, home town recruiting, holiday planning, waiting for Mike to come home, and then planning and moving forward with our PCS.

Instead, today, my husband will spend another day in a broken body. He will spend another day bored out of his skull with no meaningful work to do. His hip is broken, but his heart, spirit and mind are working great — I hope the lack of exercise for those realms doesn’t leave them atrophied! I can’t wait until he can come home.

He is chaptering out temporarily. He simply can not heal fast enough to stay at HHC, and so the only way he can continue on the path he was on without going enlisted for a year (which would make him to old for commissioning when he finished) is to chapter out, heal, rehab and then rejoin. This is precisely what he is planning on doing. He can not heal and rehab where he is now. I am not changing my banner. I am not changing my tune. The chaptering out is only a measure of recovery — nothing more.

My mother is also facing a very serious surgery in the upcoming weeks. She has a lesion on her lung and needs to have her thyroid removed. She’s a very special lady and has a lot of physical challenges ahead of her. This may explain a little of my focus on grief and loss lately. It’s hard.

Tune in next week when I write about finding significance in the Army when you are struggling in a broken body.

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