Knee Deep in the Hooah!

I am moving on up in the stages of healing from my bone graft. I finally turned a corner on Saturday afternoon, and now I am feeling human again. It’s sore and tender, and there is still some swelling, but I don’t look like I am hiding a baseball in my cheek any longer. Word to the wise — when you are having a bone graft, and there is a donor site, never assume that it’s not going to hurt too bad since the site is small. Bone is bone, is bone, and it hurts when it is cut or drilled into. Ah, but I do believe my Loratab got me through, and that I shouldn’t need it any longer.

Other news? I got a huge footlocker in the mail from Iraq last week. I knew it was coming, but seeing it was a wonderful confirmation to me that redeployment is imminent. I don’t know when I will get the call that Iraq is in the distance and a newer and safer Country is harboring the precious boots of my soldier and the men in that Brigade, but I know it will soon. I wait with a lot of anticipation, and I am beside myself that we are this close to the end of this deployment. If it has felt like a lifetime to me, I can only imagine how many lifetimes it has felt to Mike.

Bulldog – if you read this I wanted to tell you that I didn’t miss your announcement that your soldier is home! I wasn’t sure if he was home from his tour or if he was home on leave, but regardless I am praying that your family has a blessed and peaceful time of reunification! There is no news sweeter to my ears than another American soldier whose feet are planted back on our soil! Hooray for the Bulldog family, and please thank your son for his faithful service to our Country!

If you haven’t had a chance, please take a moment and stroll through the good news thread for last week! Some good progress is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. I worry that the continual suppression of the good news via an unbalanced attention and constant emphasis given to the bad news will continue to create a lopsided view of the both wars. The war on the home front has truly been an information war, to say the least. So, read the good news, pass it along and tell it to anyone who will listen. People need to know.

Have a great Monday. We’ll see if Mr. Hooah! pops in and says hi today. I have kept him busy for the past week. You all would be proud. He’s been nurse, mother, father, cook, taxi-driver, housekeeper, cartoonist, columnist, and manly-man extraordinaire through the crazy post-op haze.

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