So I was reading the news this afternoon and came across an article on TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury. This is one of the issues that AS deals with. This was one of the reasons we went to Walter Reed in the spring. It is becoming a more reconized and real after effect of the war.

Well, this article had some rather offensive, at lest to me, things to say in regards to soldiers who are suffering from TBI. Here is what it says,

” As more young men and women return from the war, TBI is a growing burden — for them, for the too-few doctors and programs available to treat them, and for taxpayers, who pay for their care and disability if they cannot hold jobs or make their way in the world.”

So my issue on it is this. Our soldiers are now a burden on tax payers when they come home injured? How the hell is that? We sent to them war on tax payer monies. Why not help heal them on tax dollars as well. It’s only right. They did not go to war to get hurt. They went to war to help. And now they are a burden??

I know my husband will never be the same person he was before he left. And I would, and try to, do whatever it took to help heal him. But I would never consider all the things we’ve been through a burden. It’s been a struggle but never a burden.
And as far as “holding a job and making thier way inthe world” goes. The military needs to be more adament on helping those who are having a hard time hleping themselves. They need to do more personal check-ins when soldiers come home. Make sure they are getting help , directing them to where they can get help if they need it, or just be a shoulder to lean on. I know it would have helped AS alot if this were the case for him. But he fell through the cracks when he got home. There needs to be more follow up care if soldiers are not in the enlisted, active military. Because no one knows what goes on each day a soldier is away from the war zone or his brother in arms.

So to the fruitloop who thinks my husband is a burden. To the country who sent him to war I think it is your obligation to help fix him.

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I was getting ready in the morning the other day. I was brushing my teeth and looked into the mirror. I sort of got lost staring at myself. Not in the conceded way but really looking at myself. I spit the toothpaste out, rinsed my mouth and leaned forward and looked into my eyes. These eyes look old I thought to myself. The crow feet wrinkles around my eyes. I use to think my skin was smooth and young looking. I’ve aged, alot. My face has some tiny scars that unless you looked at me you wouldn’t notice anymore. I can’t really remember what I use to really look like prior to Iraq.

I’ve been silent for a while. There are some things I am dealing with in light of my recent successes. Sometimes the brunt of old ’scars’ is hard to remove. No special cream to rub it away.

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