Sunday, February 8, 2009

Return to Afghanistan minus an Appendix

Hey everyone - sorry for the lack of posts but as many of you know I was in Qatar recovering from surgery. On the 21st of January I got MEDEVAC'd out of our FOB for surgery to remove my appendix. It was done in quite a rush and I didn't get a chance to even let my family know I was going to have surgery. After surgery I got flown down to Qatar for 2 weeks of recovery.

Qatar is amazing. I stayed on an Air Force base and man oh man did I join the wrong branch of service. They have swimming pools, movie theaters, pizza hut, baskin robbins, dairy queen, dunkin donuts, etc. Plus to add insult to injury they are getting combat pay for being there! I doubt any of them have even held their weapon must less fired it.

I will try and post more tomorrow. Hope everyone is doing well!

1 comment:

bigD said...

Hi Sgt. Michelle,
Sorry to hear that you had to have your appendix out...I had mine out when I was thirteen. At the time it was very scary and painful, my mom kept thinking it was "cramps!" Meanwhile, my appendix is almost busting. Anyway, I just found your blog a little bit ago. I was wondering do you still need the baby things?? I would like to send some to you, but, I wanted to make sure you still needed them. Let me know. I glad you had some time to recover. Hope you had some good eats while you were there. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.