Oi. Sooo it has been awhile. Long story short, I ended up getting a med discharge from the Army after my knee got fucked up during our FTX, and then I ended up with pneumonia, which combined with the gas chamber and a week of continued exposure to below freezing temperatures and all other types of ill shit, managed to completely wreak all kinds of hell on my lungs, which still have yet to recover. The sickness/injury combined with 7 1/2 weeks of running on pure adrenaline, and they decided to have a party in my brain with my already whacked out thyroid, so I started having seizures and getting really fucking depressed. GOOD TIMES!!!
Needless to say, I'm not going to be getting jack from the military. No severance, no benefits, not even medical treatment, though I suppose I could always try filing a claim with the local VA once I get back to Portland. Hell, I'm just glad I'm coming home, finally. The Army is even too broke and cheap-ass to fly my busted soldier ass back to Oregon, so they bought a bus ticket, which would have taken me like 3 1/2 days to get home, so I said fuck that and decided to drop in and visit my grandparents in Illinois for the weekend, borrowing my gramma's computer long enough to check the ol' email, type out this post, and buy myself a plane ticket home. Whoo for me.
But I think that will have to be all for me right now. I'll write more when I get home. Sleep beckons, and this might very well be the first time in 3 months that I'll be able to sleep for more than 3 hours at a time.
Needless to say, I'm not going to be getting jack from the military. No severance, no benefits, not even medical treatment, though I suppose I could always try filing a claim with the local VA once I get back to Portland. Hell, I'm just glad I'm coming home, finally. The Army is even too broke and cheap-ass to fly my busted soldier ass back to Oregon, so they bought a bus ticket, which would have taken me like 3 1/2 days to get home, so I said fuck that and decided to drop in and visit my grandparents in Illinois for the weekend, borrowing my gramma's computer long enough to check the ol' email, type out this post, and buy myself a plane ticket home. Whoo for me.
But I think that will have to be all for me right now. I'll write more when I get home. Sleep beckons, and this might very well be the first time in 3 months that I'll be able to sleep for more than 3 hours at a time.