10FEB13

2:24 a.m. Text tone...ugh, I'm tired. Not sleeping well and worried...

There are a lot of concerns right now. The talk is that he'll got to Walter Reed/Bethesda for the specialist. He wants to come home...or to Ft. Gordon. He DEFINITELY doesn't want to go to Ft. Campbell (there's nothing there...no home, no car!). We have to be realistic about what may happen. He is STILL assigned to the 101st, so unless he gets convalescent leave, he may be sent back there. All the unknowns will be filled in as we go.

Ideally, he can come here for his care and convalescence. Better yet, they can just tell him that since there's nothing they can do, he can go back downrange. Seriously. He CAN see out of the eye...it's just not clear. I don't know about anyone else, but I know that even with BLURRY VISION, I can shoot a target. It may not be dead center, but I'll hit the target. The likelihood of him even having to shoot at all is slim, so I don't see why they can't sent him back. There are issues with who will take leadership if can't go back. I won't get into it here.

Scott has worked hard for this. We've been separated for 16 months in order for him to be in a deploying unit. I don't want him to give up, and he definitely doesn't want to NOT be deployed.

Went back to sleep after our text conversation, but again, I had a hard time sleeping and so many dreams...not many were good, either. Lots of prayers running through my head all the time. Praying for miracles right now.

10:15 a.m.

FT with Scott, at church (thankful for the wifi there!). He said that he was going to push to be sent back downrange.

All the rest of this day, we went back and forth. He was told that he wouldn't be able to go back downrange. He was manifested on a med-evac flight to leave Monday at 7:00 a.m. (Germany time). They came to get him around 5:30 p.m. He was going to have to spend the night at Ramstein, but they had beds available.

While he was at the airport, he was able to go to the USO. No wifi, but they had skype loaded, so we skyped for a while. He's still waiting to go.


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