We're civilian again…. pg 21

[lamortefille]

*hugs* Best wishes…I’ve been there and it so tough. 🙁

[laphon1]

Glad he made it safely home. Hope his Dad has more good days than bad. *Continue sending hugs and good wishes*

[Pegasi1978]

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. We had a good 18 days together.

Visting with my husband’s family was bittersweet due to his father’s health. His father has lost 75 pounds since the alcholic dementia set in, most of that in the last month. He went from around 240 to 163. Looks like an entirely different person. The first time we got to see his dad was literally on of the best days he has had since being put in the hospital/psych ward in early September. He remembered who all of us were and was able to talk in full sentences. The next time we saw him wasn’t a bad day, but it wasn’t a good one. It was rough on both of us. We didn’t get to visit him again, because they had to take him from the psych ward to the hospital and restrain him while he was put on IVs to help with dehydration and acute renal failure. My husband didn’t think he could handle seeing his father like that.

He got the tattoo on his back touched up by a friend of his mothers for free as a thank you for being a soldier. The tattoo artist is former military. He also got a new tattoo on his upper left arm. Does the dragon head on the left shoulder blade look familiar to anyone?

After being with his family for a week and doing a late birthday party for our son and an early Christmas, we headed to my parents house for a few days. He got to see the PYOs that I had painted for gifts and see the reactions of the people when the opened them. My friend who got the purple dragon literally squeaked and started hopping up and down she was so excited. She had a hard time putting it back in the box when it was time for her to leave. The friend who got the black & red dragon and the white memorial dragon teared up and his hands where shaking so badly we had to help steady them when he saw the white one.

After only a few days with my parents, we were ready for some time to ourselves so we went home. We didn’t do much once we got there. My husband was so surprised when he saw my Windstone collection. Every time he would look he would spot a new piece and it was usually one he didn’t know about next to one he did know about. 😆 Some pieces he didn’t even register that they were there until I said something since they were so small – like the black griffin chicks in front of the black parents, or the white baby unicorn in front of the white unicorns (he never did notice that one and I forgot to mention it before he left 😆 )

He flew out this weekend and has already called to tell me he’s back in country. Since he wasn’t around when they did the first set of pinning for people who got promoted this month his ceremony is Saturday morning. So far Gavin (our son) and I are doing well settling back into the routine of not having him around.

[Bob]

there is no left arm dragon unless I’m NOT seeing things
Do you mean the left shoulder?

[Pegasi1978]

I meant on the left shoulder blade. 😆 That’s what you get when you have a lot to say when typing in an itty-bitty box.

[Bob]

pegasi1978 wrote:

I meant on the left shoulder blade. 😆 That’s what you get when you have a lot to say when typing in an itty-bitty box.

I saw the other post too

[lamortefille]

Wow that time went so fast! I’m sorry he had to go back, but I do appreciate him serving and keeping us free. *hugs*

[Maria]

Sorry he had to go back already, Pegasi. Merry Christmas anyway – to all of you.

[Purplecat]

So sorry he had to go again. Tell him we said to stay safe and you hang in there peg. We’re here for you. 🙂

[Bob]

if you ever need to VENT you know you have us

[Pegasi1978]

Wow it’s been a while since I’ve updated this, but there hasn’t been much to update on. We’re coming up on the one year mark for the deployment. He’s still got a couple more months to go. Once he gets back we will have a few months and then he’s out of the army (as long as he has a job that is :lol:)! He’s been applying to jobs online, but hasn’t had a lot of responses. Considering the fact he’s in Iraq right now I can understand that. He did hear from HR at one company and they said to keep them informed as he gets closer to coming home and separating from the Army.

His father is doing much better now. In fact he seemed to start to get better after Christmas. He’s still not 100% better (and never will be) but it’s so much nicer that he’s closer to his old self again. He’s living with his mother and sister about 4 hours away from me.

His grandmother (father’s mother) had a stroke last night. They took her to the hospital and I don’t know any more than that. His grandmother is the glue that holds the family together so to speak. I don’t know what will happen if she doesn’t pull through.

[Stephanie]

Oh no, I’m so sorry to hear about his grandmother. I’ll keep her and the whole family in my thoughts.

I’m glad, though, that you can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

[Jasmine]

Well, it won’t be too much longer.

Sorry to hear about his grandmother.

[Starbreeze]

I hope your husband’s grandmother pulls through. She’ll be in my prayers.

[siberakh1]

Hopefully his grandmother will be ok. I’ll keep her in my thoughts. Good luck to his job hunting and safe return!

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