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Dispatches from Walter Reed

J.R. Salzman, a different kind of active-duty milblogger, the kind who was wounded by an IED in Iraq:

"I’m here at Walter Reed and I’m doing OK. I have surgery pretty much every other day. They are trying to close up my amputated right arm/hand, and they are repairing the smashed knuckles on my left hand. I’m in a lot of pain and it is making it hard to sleep and do normal tasks. It’s going to take a long time to learn how to do everything over again."

His wife is doing the typing now, as he has just three fingers left. Going to be worth reading, so bookmark it.