Articles Archive for March 2009
Army Life, Featured »
Lately I look back fondly on the days of being a cadet, of first joining the Army, and wonder how, or if, things would be different if I had known this is what I was getting myself into. I’ve known for a long time that my perceptions of what it was going to mean to be an Army officer were completely distorted. Mostly by Hollywood and hearsay, probably, being that I come from no lineage of established military tradition.
But I was daydreaming through another PowerPoint presentation, drowning out the annoying, …
Army Life, Headline »
WARNING: These pics are definitely pretty gross! The black stip is dried blood and my leg was covered in wrap adhesive!
Here are the first looks of my bare foot and incision since my surgery on 11 Feb. I got the stitches out, the wound cleaned a little bit, and a hard cast put back on.
The doc says things look good. I’ll be in the hard cast for another 8 weeks before moving on to the walking boot for about 4 weeks.
I don’t really have any pain to speak of, except …
