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Then it hits me Johnson, Morris, and the both, I push my body to listen and open my eyes to look around the barren hospital room
Where the hell am I?
I locate the call button and wait for sos to me Did Johnson make it? Did Morris’s body make it home? Where am I? And why the hell am I in soto an end The only thing getting ht of Mercy and our child The nurse just left with the promise to call my family--well, Mercy--and let her know that I’ot here
As I fight the sleep that , I also battle with the fact that I’ve lost a chunk of eries to mendarm, seven broken ribs, and one foot
After the rest of our tea Johnson and Morris, ere taken the ional Medical Center next to the US air base in Rah to be moved
Despite my best efforts, Johnson and Morris didn’t oing to have to learn hoalk again--not when my brothers didn’t make it out alive All because I was fucked up in the head froer, and because of that, their families are husbandless and fatherless
Hours later, I ith a jolt It takes hout the rooh with sweat fro isn’t reliving that hell No, okesawed off My whole leg feels like I’ve dipped it into a shredder
"FUCK!" I screaet the covers off my feverish body "Godda as I forcebefore the pain beco back the covers, I reach doith the ar worse with each second, but when I look down, there is nothing Nothing but a covered stump halfway down from my knee I scream from pain so uncontrollably violent that I start to vomit all over myself and frantically search for a way to turn off the feelings coer part ofseven months since I’ve been away froht foot My wails have become a constant coht with the depression that has settled over my body like a thick blanket
The depression didn’t sink in until I got a letter fro to contact her family The bla myself close to him, her, and their kids, I have ruined their lives
"It should have been you, Maddox I would have my husband and my children would have their father had you not failed the my life"
Her words are a constant coo to sleep alone
Thesure the rest ofaround me Doctors in and out, nurses, physical therapists--you na door ofthat is painfullyfrom this time