The Broken Soldier

I took a week off from this.  All of this.  I hung out with my step-daughter, my wife, my dogs, and my neighbors.  I unplugged the phone.  I didn’t read or watch the news.  I rarely checked my email.  After a year of doing this I felt a vacation of sorts was appropriate.  A semi-on-the-fly escape from the painful realities of my life.  The unlaid plans of mice and men….

Each morning I’d roll out of bed after what was basically a sleepless night to the warm embrace of severe pain caused by an untreated spinal cord injury.  More spinothalamic love on the 8-step trek from bed to bathroom.  Add emotional pain of incontinence or retention, depending on the day.  No matter how drugged up and tuned out I try to be, I can’t escape this bullshit.  This is what my life is going to be like now.  I will now, and likely forever will be, hypersensitive to and hyper-agitated by the harm military medicine and inept military/government bureaucracy have visited on my fellow service members and I.

I found the following link during my ‘vacation.’  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347010,00.html

It’s about VA employees with government credit cards spending $2.6 Billion on possibly inappropriate purchases.  Maybe that’s why the government has to drive down disability ratings.  They have big credit card bills to pay.  Enjoy.