Taking Care Of Our Injured Vets

"The biggest loss is the loss of the man I married," April Marcum said, describing her husband now as disconnected on the best days, violent on the worst ones. Sarah Beth Glicksteen for The New York Times

Looking After The Soldier, Back Home and Damaged -- New York Times

RAY CITY, Ga. — April and Tom Marcum were high school sweethearts who married after graduation. For years, she recalls, he was a doting husband who would leave love notes for her to discover on the computer or in her purse. Now the closest thing to notes that they exchange are the reminders she set up on his cellphone that direct him to take his medicine four times a day.

He usually ignores them, and she ends up having to make him do it.

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My Comment: This story reminds me of my father. He suffered a debilitating stroke that did not only paralyzed him, but it also altered his personality and behavior (he became violent until the last year of his life). Even though he was institutionalized, for seven and a half years my mother and I had to watch over him and try our best to make his life as comfortable as possible. When he finally past away, the first thing that I said to my mother was that her duty to her husband was now been completed .... she was now free. Not surprising .... she agreed.

This is what April and Tom Marcum are now going through .... and trust me .... my heart goes out to them and to the thousands of families who must now take care of their loved ones.