They Made Me Wait in the ER While Prioritizing a Wedding Until Everything Started to Unravel

deployments when I was unreachable, when I was somewhere I could not check statements or ask questions or notice the withdrawals accumulating in careful increments. They had counted on my absence. They had planned around it. And when I came home injured and needed help, when I showed up at their door pale and stiff and barely holding myself upright,continue reading …