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Comment by TexasDocMom on December 19, 2009 at 12:16am

Ruth, keep bragging! what a wonderful experience for you and your husband, and what a lucky Marine to have those two come by when they did!

A young Marine who died at Camp Lajuene was just buried this week in Sinton,TX. This Marine your son saved will get the help he needs and maybe others will reach out for help when they see that he does better. It's heartbreaking, the suicide rate for our young military. Our central Texas community lost a young Marine to suicide at CP, there is an organization named for him for PTSD victims and vets having trouble adjusting to civilian life.

Our corpsman are learning to reach out, like your son and Sicily did, to young Marines fighting those battles we can't see. I'm so thankful for your son, and Sicily, one was saved. Be very proud, mom, keep bragging!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on December 19, 2009 at 12:16am

Oh my, you made my night! Congratulations on raising such a fine young man and corpsman. Thanks for sharing and you just keep on bragging, you have so much to be proud of!! Wonderful.

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 18, 2009 at 7:01pm

Baby pictures, yes, that's what is needed right now! Congrats to all his happy relatives!

Comment by Sharon P.M. on December 18, 2009 at 5:47pm

Hi moms! I've been on the road since 0730 - finally getting back tot he office! Updates: last I heard, cub had made it as far as Portugal, was stretching his legs while the plane re-fueled, this was earlier today, no word since on if he made it to his new base but I'm sure by now he has!
Baby "poopy corn" made his entrance at 1800 last night, weighing in at 6 lbs, 12 oz (kind of tiny for our family of giants!) and 20 inches long. CUTE as a button!!! No name yet that I'm aware, heading down to the hospital when I leave here to see him and momma.
Hope y'all have a great weekend in the event I don't get around to turning on the computer! :0)

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 18, 2009 at 11:30am

I knew ruthella would stay up! glad she had company. I am actually more of the nightowl than not, but some health issues at the moment, and you know, you give those kids just a little medical training and they think they run the show. Staying up on the computer was mentioned by name " get rest, go to bed before midnight, get off the computer!" I do a lot of family history, if I grab on to something at 10pm, all of a sudden it's 3am and I'm still there and jumping up and down because I've tracked some clue to the end.

I like that saying Lorelai.

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 18, 2009 at 1:42am

Bed for me, ruthella, sleep in in the morning! good night!

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 18, 2009 at 1:17am

A miltary mom told me back when my son first enlisted that a corpsman was a special breed, hand chosen for their hearts and steel. She has no idea how I've held on to that, especially when he was deployed. I've now learned that can mean they will love the children and be gentle with them, right up until the children reach for their weapons, then they pepper spray 'em. After the stories I've heard about Viet Nam, sounds fair to me.

When my mother was in her last years, she was in the hospital. One Sunday, a tech student came in to do blood gases, a draw that requires a real pro, and usually a doctor will do them, at least at the hospital where I worked. I stopped them. Mom was being so gentle and nice, and I just said no. Her color was good, she wasn't in any distress, and it wasn't happening. She taught hundreds to hit IV's, and give shots, she wasn't being practiced on by a tech. Once she said she taught nurses to give shots by using an orange to practice. I told my son that and asked what they used to practice...he said "marines". Cracked me up!

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 18, 2009 at 12:21am

ruthella, my son's favorite part of training and doing it was IV's. My mom was a nurse, and he never met her, but somehow, he decided he had her "touch". She used to be called in by the hospital to put IVs in the tiny preemies before we had a Children's Hospital, she'd get up to go do it because she wanted it done right. My son's exciting call was a dozen Marines going down in the heat and hitting 8 IVs in a row when they were brought in. I think it's that extra confidence of his Grandmother's genetics and her touch that makes him not nervous about hitting a vein under pressure.

I worked at a Children's Hospital in respiratory therapy, accidents were just the worse, those beautiful children coming in. I can understand your son's feelings completely.

Give me caramel sauce on chocolate bread pudding...( use brownies as the choc bread...). My favorite.

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 17, 2009 at 10:12pm

http://www.dmrti.army.mil/courses.html If you look under the link to c4,which for some reason I cannot directly link to, you'll see one of the courses that corpsmen are participating in in San Antonio, my son is stationed there, sent me that link.

Some of the classes have started and the Navy has been moving corpsmen into that area to handle the work load since July, my son's roommate has been there since August, a corpsman he has served with since A School.

It's my understanding that all military medical training will be at Fort Sam or in the area by 2011.

I THINK, don't quote me because things change..., my son will be involved in the 5 day outdoor field training for medical personnel, not necessarily just corpsmen taking it, doctors, whoever has to have field training to be deployed. He was supposed to participate in the Dec 3rd class to startup but they gave him his 10 days leave for getting set up in his apartment. He'll start the next class, we assume, in January.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on December 17, 2009 at 6:20pm

Inga, when will Corps School be moved to San Antonio?

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