add another scar to the body

here is my new scar. well it hasnt healed completly yet, but it will get there. things are gettin better, the infection is pretty much gone, i am almost off of the anti-biotics and i am goin to physical therapy. right now the therapy consists of me stretchin my leg out. it does get painful at times, my knee is what is bother me right now, but oh well just as long as i get back to normal.

i heard today that they weighed the absest that they took out of my leg and it was six ounces. i guess that is pretty damn big. so i just wanted to show everybody me new scar, i hope all is well and thank you all for your prayers

back from the hospital

hello everyone,
thank you all for your prayers, they truly did work. i aparently had something that the doctors have never seen or heard of. (shit like this usually happens to me). so i had MRSA, wich is a bacteria that grows on or around flesh, i think. well my case was that i had and absest grow inside of my quad. i suppose this is very rare. so i had three surgeries in four days and spent a week in the hospital. the size of the absest was three quarters the size of a pop can. so i had a big hole in my leg. the first surgery was goin in and cleanin all the bacteria and puss up, the second was to remove the absest, and the third was to go back in an make sure the infection didnt come back. we had a little mess up with the anti-biotics. they was using one kind but they werent happy with how fast it was working, so they switched to a better one, and it did worse. my white blood cell count went back up, so they put me back on the other one, and my count went back to were is should be and so they sent me home today. it is nice to be back, now the rehab it going to start in. that is going to be painful since my leg muscles are all locked up. i will ge the job done and hopefully be back to normal before to long. oh ya, the length of the incision was about twelve to fourteen inches long. the doctor took pictures for me and i will put those on here when i get them. again, thank you all for your prayers and keep sendin them my way.
love you all

for erika

if it wasnt for erika, things wouldnt be goin as well as they are. she is holding everything down back home. for instants, she is workin her regular job, which is alot of work, runnin buddha bellys, taken care of the house in the dalles, keepin our house in hood river clean, inside and out. the outside was my job and it took a bit of time. plus she takes care of everything in my life that i can not do.

people think that deployments are just on the soilders shoulders, but their wives, i think, have a harder job. we the soilders focus on our task at hands, but our wives, they have multiple jobs. They go and do everything for a year missing a complete half of themselves. Most of us would have a hard time being away from our spouse for a week, but think of them doin it for a whole year. Erika, you are the best wife i could have ever asked for. i think God for ALL he has us put through, it has gotten us ready for this moment in our lives and for the present and the long future together. This is for you, and how much i appreciate all you does and this doesnt even start to show how much i miss and love you Erika. so for everyone readin this, pray for erika and all the wives that are going through deployments without our wives support, deployments would be a lot rougher.
love you all

poor me

hey yall
from the last time i wrote and told everyone about the knot, or bump i had on my leg, well it has gotten alot worse. what started out down by me knee, has gone up to outside of my quad just about up to my groin area. my leg is about two to three times that size of my other one. been seein our medics but they cant seem to find out what is wrong. let me tell ya what, it hurts quite a bit sometimes. they got me on some good drugs though, i get knocked out about twenty minutes after takin them. since the doctors hear cant figure it out, they are sending me to an er room, maybe to get an mri, and maybe surgery. who knows, so i am leavin here this morning to go and figure out why my leg is so big, so i ask everyone to say a prayer for me
love you all
justin

Gettin in the swing of things

hello all from my grand palace.
things are startin to get repetive around here now. we are all getting in the swing of things and the flow of how it is all goin to be. not to much excitin has been goin on around here, wich is a good thing. we have been doin our thing and i have been putting out some pretty nice plates for the people we have been cookin for. once i get my camera powered up i will put them on here. i have been meeting some pretty cool people and we just added another cook, so that will lesson the load a little bit, (but it wasnt all the rough without him). i have been cooped up in my room for the past few days, the medics said that i have an imflamed muscle in my quad so i have been hoppin around like a bunny rabbit. it is not too fun, every buddy i go by asks what happened and it is gettin pretty old. i dont even know what happened. one day i was fine the next morning it wasnt. besides all of that just gettin into my routine, cookin, sleepin, workin out, and hittin golf balls. it is kinda hard to be me, i dont wish this on anyone:) life is too rough over here.
i hope all is well back in your neck of the wooks, ahh, since i am bed riddin for a while one of my privates just brought me lunch.
yall take care, love yall, keep prayin for all of us
justin

this is a little journey from the states to kuwait then up to iraq then is ends wth the pictures of the al fasad complex, i think that is how it is spelled. so this is what i get to see everyday while i am at "work"

mansion on forsythe park

here is a little video of myself and my section cooking at the mansion. enjoy