Narrative

             I woke up scared, not knowing where I was. Tubes, wires, and needles littered my body. Pulling and scratching at the foreign objects, I tried to free myself from the physical bondage. Immediately a voice called to me. It sounded as though it was coming from across a dream, but as she spoke again and again I realized that I was in neither bondage nor a dream. I was in Balboa Navel Medical Center's Intensive Care Unit. The nurse asked if I was ok but all I could say was "Get this damn thing off of my face". She responded instantly by removing the oxygen mask. While placing a small tube in my nose, she asked if I had any pain, and of course I was in agonizing pain. It was the type of pain you would not wish on your worse enemy. She said for me to rate it on a scale of one to ten. All I could think was, "One to ten?!" "My head was just sliced open and more brain was removed from it then it seems you could possibly have inside your entire skull, where do you think my pain level is?", but my exhausted body could utter the number ten. In less time then it took to realize where I was, I had the cool ecstasy of morphine flowing through my veins. She asked again how I felt, but before speaking another word, I slipped away into two weeks of painful bliss. I was in the worst pain a person could feel, or at least I thought so, but I was alive. By the grace of God the accident didn't kill me and neither did the six hour operation.
             The alarm sounded at five A.M. and I got up as usual, laced my running shoes, and headed for the hills of Camp Pendleton. Although this day seemed to be just another day it was a little different. I was flying today. A Huey went down the day before and it needed to have a test ran on it and it could only be done in the air. Well, most of our squadron was on a separate detachment in Yuma, Arizona and I was one of two people left back that was qualified to run the checks. The other M...

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