A PTSD Exam

CC is going before the VA compensation and pension board to ask for more compensation because he has PTSD. Ranking disabilities sucks. But that is our mission - Proving CC to be worthy of restitution because: his body is permanently on alert; he has specific mental, physical,and emotional characteristics caused by war; and asking to be paid for this inconvenience.  

In writing these blogs, I give CC a pretty hard time, but hopefully, you the reader, sees what a great guy he is.  Despite the PTSD, he has stunning moments of kindness and generosity - towards loved ones and strangers. He is funny as all get out. Not to mention - when I met him in my mid thirties, he was near 'bout the sexiest man I 'd ever laid my eyeballs on.  He's still all that.

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He is hardwired to expect answers and responses in nanoseconds. 

His emotional skin is thin and mine stretches daily to accommodate the stress of a human firecracker exploding endlessly throughout our day. 

Its own dementia, the PTSD- a flame in the brain- a seizure of anger.

Pain aggravates. Inconveniences inflame.

Daily routines are fields of land mines. 

With humor and self awareness, he goes from one task to the next; being a testament of endurance, preservance, generosity and love;

and in the process, peppering us with residual shell fragments of the American War in Vietnam.   ______________________________