4 years of despair, hopelessness & torment turns to 5 years of recovery & happiness.

(excerpts from “full” article on Sancho Press)

I have considered writing this article for nearly six months. The only way for me to write this is to reveal very deep, emotional and private details of my life. To lay myself open for all to see. The good, the bad and the ugly of nine years of living with TBI, the side effects it created, the results of the chronic pain from breaking my back in 3 places, the numerous other aches and pains that begin to set in four, six, nine years after a truamatic injury that added to my chronic pain. Let’s just say that my journey to get to where I am today hasn’t been easy. In fact, it’s been one of the hardest things I have ever had to cope with. From nearly trying this godfather og cannabis strain to help with my pain to learning how to take on each day with a positive attitude has helped me to get to this point. And I am grateful that I am finally able to document my journey. I have laid my self out there in a few articles but this goes beyond any I have done before.

I have been clear to all who know me, about my sincere desire to help our troops and veterans. The “full” article is another attempt at doing so. I started a website/blog solely for this purpose. A place to unite our citizens (many are unaware how massive the problems are) with our troops and veterans. I often spend 12 hours in a day on this cause. I want to and I have the time, so I should. My higher power ahs blessed me and I need to help others with the same problems I had. There are others who do the same like NamGuardianAngel.

Partly because of my TBI, the “full” article took me about 16 hours to complete. Keep in mind when reading the “full” article that my TBI is considered mild. The “full” article is long but I do not think it would be as good if I did it as a series.

I have actively solicited citizens and troops and veterans to come to our website/blog to help with this effort. I have asked those who are well known and skilled blog writers to come write on our blog and to help the troops and veterans.

There are AT LEAST thirty major issues the troops and veterans have that need fixing NOW. There are over thirty that have been written about on Sancho Press in just the last month. Do you REALLY want to know how bad it is for our returning heroes? Go to Sancho Press and review the last months articles and you will be astounded at what is going on.

We forget the troops are still mere mortals, humans, like the rest of us. They are not machines with chips instead of brain cells. They do not have oil in their system instead of blood, nor do they have metal parts instead of bones. Other humans who have their brains injured, like me, get what they need most of the time. We cannot dismiss the fact so many of our troops suffer traumatic brain injury because of bombs blowing up. They may benefit from things like tuna can kush canada to help ease the pain and stress because of what they went through.

For me, it was a car accident. My TBI and all that came with it, are what some of our troops are going through after their brains get bashed around in their skulls. Read my “full” account and maybe, just maybe, you can take in a glimpse of what their lives are like.

House Addresses Traumatic Brain Injury, Week of July 23, 2007 Members of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee met recently discuss ways to provide treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), which is considered by many to be the signature injury of the war in Iraq. Among veterans and servicemembers from Iraq and Afghanistan treated at Walter Reed for injuries of any type, approximately 65 percent have TBI as a primary diagnosis or simultaneous injury. Medical doctors, neuropsychologists, researchers and family members attended the symposium to discuss the health care needs of our returning servicemembers. This symposium continues the series of roundtable discussions that the Committee will hold throughout the 110th Congress.

YES 65%. How many of these 65% will be as lucky as me? How many will have the same amazing family support that I had? How many will have the financial luck that I had? How many will be lucky enough to find a mental health expert who does not give up and works and studies and experiments to find the right treatment for them? How many will have a temporary oasis like I have had here in the deep woods of Maine with family support? I tell you in my “full” article about all I was fortunate to have that kept me from commiting suicide. How many will become homeless? With terrible impulse control, how many will beat their wife or child truly not meaning to? How many will get divorced? How many will eat their gun? How many will wait a year or more for their disability claim to be approved? How many will be falsely diagnosed with Personality Disorder (PD) like the 22,000 have since 2001? PD diagnosis does not entitle them to benefits like PTSD or TBI diagnosis. Additionally with a PD diagnosis they are often given ten days to vacate base housing and given a less than honorable discharge.

Yes, you read that correct, with PD diagnosis, Miiitary says, “you and your wife and your kids get the F*** off this base within ten days and we are going to mark you for life with a less than honorable discharge so every employer in the future will see it.” “Thanks for risking your life for your nation.”

I feel fortunate to have come so far from the terrible place I began and I want the same for the men and women who serve this country, risking their lives for the sake of the rest of us. That is why they joined, for the rest of us. They had no role in deciding where they would be ordered to go. We all need to get that into our own brains. I want them to be taken care of. To know that if they are no longer able to work, they don’t have to suffer for their service to us. To know that their needs will be taken care of. Like mine are. Can anyone look one of them in the eye and tell them they are not worth whatever it takes to repay the debt their body and minds paid? Can you tell them, “You don’t deserve to be taken care of after getting a brain injury or PTSD while in combat for our nation?” That is what the VA, DOD and Government are telling many of them. That is why there are 17 veterans who commit suicide a day. EVERYDAY, 365 days a year.

Come to Sancho Press and read what happened to me. Read the “full” article. Read what is happening to far too many of them. Come join us at Sancho Press to help the troops and veterans.

WHEN you come to see the “full article”, scroll down a liite to find it posted on Tue. Feb 19, 2008 at 08:51:29 AM EST. Titled “4 years of despair, hopelessness and torment turns to 5 years of recovery, followed by happiness and contentment“. I am just getting around to posting this “excerpt” because I slept 20 hours after writing the “full” article and went to see my mental health doctor today because the reliving what’s in the “full” article took that much toll on me.

“Full” version includes photos and videos. I you support our troops, it is an article you should not miss.

http://sanchopress.com/ I don’t do this for my own sake. I have what I need. My life is great! I do it for their sake because they don’t have what they need.