Blogging has been sporadic this week, because I was suffering from a pinched nerve in my spine. It started with muscle spasms last week and progressed.
Ever had a real pinched nerve?
They hurt, constantly, relentlessly, agonizingly.

There is no way to get away from the pain, painkillers do not help, they dull your senses perhaps, but the pain doesn’t go away.
Not when you sit, stand, lay, prop on pillows, snarl or hiss the pain just stays with you.

I haven’t been fun to be around. I snarled and hissed and was just plain miserable. The good news is that I got to see Jenn my most ever in the world favorite orthopedic yesterday, and she gave me meds that did help.

It’s a shame her office staff had to reschedule me two times over a two week period.
Neither she nor her staff would have waited 2 weeks to be seen.
But because of the multiple spine surgeries I have had, I am not about to let another orthopedic near me.

TheMasterOfTheUniverse was as thankful as I that the snarling possessed woman had left. We both got some sleep last night.

Tags: pain, pinched-nerve

Sgt. Steve Morin Jr.
34 years old from Arlington, Texas
111th Engineer Battalion, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard
September 28, 2005

From the time he finished high school, Sgt. Steve Morin Jr. made serving in the military his career.

“He always stood up for what he thought was right,” Gwendolyn Michelle Morin, his wife, said. “He was a fighter. He would never give up.” “He had called me to let me know what he was going to do that day,” she said. He expected to be able to call her more often because of the missions he was being assigned. Sometimes they would go 11 or 12 days between calls.

Morin enlisted in the Navy after graduating high school in his hometown of Brownfield, Texas at 17. By 34, Morin had devoted 14 years to the Navy, served in the National Guard for two and planned to attend Officers Candidate School. Morin was still in the Navy when he met his wife. At the time, the two were working for a photo company; he was Santa Claus and she was an elf, she said. Both were attending Texas Tech University. “It was funny because we always kept running into each other. He would hang outside my classes and wait for me with a Diet Coke,” recalled Gwendolyn. “He knew how to make me really happy.”

Sgt. Morin died when an IED went off, overturning the vehicle he was riding in near Umm Qasr, Iraq.

“He’s very strong willed, very determined. Humorous, a clown, but he was also very disciplined and very passionate about what he believed in,” Gwendolyn Morin said. “He always wanted to serve his country.”

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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I apologise that this didnt get posted yesterday!

Tags: American -Soldier, hero, Heroes, War on Terror