Frustration is going to Urgent Care in pain to be told to take your medication, take Motrin, drink water, and go back to work. Or having a provider hint that everything might be caused by constipation. Or fighting busy signals for a week to schedule an appointment.
Meanwhile, I'm reluctantly taking Percocet and cutting evenings short with friends so I can lay doped up in my bunk for some relief from the pain.
All of my tests so far have been negative.
We're all hoping it's nothing serious.
They asked for volunteers, so I volunteered. I deployed and spent a year in the sandbox. I came home. The Army decided I was too broken to serve any longer and gave me temporary medical retirement. I'm a civilian again and married right back in. My husband is gearing to deploy. In the meantime, I have a strange love-hate relationship with the Army. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't.
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- I'm a contradiction all by myself. Soldier and student. Stargazer and computer geek. Boots and music. Paper pusher and globetrotter. It all works out in the end.
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A bit of history...
There was a call for volunteers to deploy in Spring of 2006. I volunteered, was selected, passed the screening process, and was sent to reclassification training to go from being a bandsman to a human resource specialist. After graduation, I was home for roughly a month. I met the rest of my new unit right before we were sent to mobilization training. Once validated, we were sent overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I left university, quit my job, dumped my foreign boyfriend, and said a few very painful goodbyes. But I don't regret it one bit.
In early August, I was MEDEVAC'd out of the desert. My unit was just a few weeks away from going home. Now my only job is to get better. The irony is that they returned to their homes before I did.The Army has offered me disability and temporary retirement pay. I'm taking it. Bye bye combat boots.
3 comments:
hey, don't stop taking your antibiotics. the best cure against any sorts of infection is to take antibiotics until the infection or pain is totally gone.
Oh. i'm sorry for have tried to be smart :P i hope you're ok. or at least, be ok soon. it must be horrible carrying all that pain while you still have to work. being a woman sucks a lot sometimes. i guess i have to book an appointment for a cervical smears as well. -sher
It's okay -- I had just forgotten to keep you updated on things. The guys and I talk about it all of the time, but they don't quite understand. My appointment is soon, I'll email you with more details.
Working on pain killers is, to say the least, interesting... good thing I have an office job.
And yes, book your appointment before you get on the plane!
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