The funeral for a young man who when hit by an IED that blew his kevlar off his head laid down lead in return fire on the enemy. Even though he was concussed he still was trying to protect the rest of his friends from the terrorist attacking us. He is dead. Took some psychedelics and jumped out of a window less than two months from the platoon ( Read more... )

Past RN Board
My SECFOR will have boots on the ground mid-summer
LJ can swim and is on the soccer team
Amber is pregnant

I'd do these in haiku if I was more creative.

Graduated nursing school
Getting married
Part of troop surge to Afghanistan
LJ is learning to ride his bike

There's the update on the last six months.

brownK78
brooklyn1

Survived another semester. One more to go. From what I've heard we're pretty much in the hospital the entire time.

If it Howard Stern or something like that it would be no big deal, but a credible news/editorial magazine... this is pretty fucked up!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-muslim.html

Well over a third of the class didn't survive this semester. Fortunately I wasn't one of there number. There is 8 months more of this shit. At my officer Basic course they recycled/kicked out a 1/3 for the whole program. We have already lost 26 in two semesters and 22 were from this semester. It's pretty disconcerting. On the flip side, the ( Read more... )

Spent my 27th B-day in a hospital treating a dude with severe dermatitas/cellulitous and now in the library reading up on Pharm/Pathophys for my test Friday. At least my kid and I had some fun this afternoon.
Late

Well I'm surviving two months into this nursing program. It's pretty intense. It wouldn't be as challenging if we didn't have stupid-ass busy work getting in the way of studying for the difficult information. I've been closing the school library six-seven nights a week. It's paying off though. I'm doing fairly well in the program. It's fairly ( Read more... )

which was strange because we had got back from the trip the day before. The cruise was a lot of fun. It was completely relaxing and stress free. I don't think I notice how stressed I normally feel until I'm completely relaxed for an extended period. So good for the soul ( Read more... )