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Comment by Curleytop on April 6, 2013 at 7:17am

Thanks KathyProudCM,

I enjoy the hints on how to ship things.  Iam new at all this.  This is my first deployment experience as everyone can tell.  Still working things out but today is a new day.

Comment by Curleytop on April 5, 2013 at 10:27pm

Thanks so much for your comments Susan, Tamme, and JerseySusan.  My oldest son has also chosen a career with guns.  He intends to be a park ranger and will graduate in May with his criminal justice degree.  I admire you mothers that have two sons serving.  What strength you have.  I take it I will be able to mail him things so that will help.  I will begin researching that.  I need things to keep me busy.  Thanks again.  I am glad I am a part of this group.

Comment by JerseySusan on April 5, 2013 at 3:19pm

Thanks TD, I will definitely look into those resources listed.

Comment by TexasDocMom on April 5, 2013 at 3:10pm

JerseySusan, please take a look at the web sites above. Info there for family members of returning vets, about PTS and TBI and the effects it has on family etc...and numbers to get help. You do not have to share your name or your son's name. Please, please take a look.

Yes, I am one of those moms who said no guns in the house. I did grow up with hunters, and that's okay with me, I love venison! but....guns are  for hunting wild game, not hobbies in my book. Now I have a damn gun registered to this house, thanks to my son. grrr...

CurleyTop, you'll find a spot in your mind where you are comfortable....and you'll get through this, Do remember to breathe. Find those projects in the  yard, I painted 3 bedrooms....and if you find it too diffucult, ask your doctor for something to help you. You have to rest, you have to take care of you. You have to sound like mom when the phone rings, you have to stay calm until he hangs up. It's tough. You can do it, the fact that you're here planning it out and getting support tells me you have strength to do this...and believe it or not, it'll be you next year, telling a new mom the very same thing. 

Comment by JerseySusan on April 5, 2013 at 3:01pm

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to let you all know I'm still hear reading and listening to all the posts. It's been an emotional month since our youngest son came back. The first week went Ok, but he was very quiet. The second week was not good, he came down with strep throat and became very emotionally verbal with some anger towards us that left me speechless and heart broken not knowing how to deal with it. He didn't want us to ask him how he was feeling or to express any sympathy towards him while he was sick. Since then, he's had time to be with his friends from back home that he grew up with, and has spent some quality time with us helping our daughter and her family move into a new home and spent Easter with all of us. As his team left the sandbox, he felt very guilty leaving others behind that weren't due to come home yet. As of right now, their team is due to go back in January, but that is so far off right now and so many things could change before that time to a different destination.
We heard from our oldest son a couple of days ago that is deployed on his sub. It was pubicly posted they pulled into Guam, so I am aloud to say that. Not sure how long he will be there, but it was great to hear his voice with a phone call!!

Comment by Tamme on April 5, 2013 at 2:57pm

Curleytop, we are here with wide shoulders and open arms.  With one son in Afghanistan and the other deployed on a ship in the Middle East, my heart stays on the outside of my chest.  All the women on this site are a Godsend and can truly say they have been in our shoes and understand how we feel.  TDM - I agree - I took the advice and decorate the inside flaps of all the boxes and always finding things to send them.  I didn't let my boys wrestle in the house and they turned around and both joined the high school wrestling team!  I also discouraged guns and they both join the Navy - one a Corpsman now greenside with the Marines.  On top of that - sent them to 13 years of Catholic School to go to College.  Go figure. 

Comment by Curleytop on April 5, 2013 at 2:26pm

Thanks TDM,

I try to stay busy to keep my thoughts from going down the dark path. I did cry then I went outside, pulled some weeds and mowed some yard.  Usually I am at work but we have the day off.  I was the mom that kept guns out the house when the boys were young so that could not be any accidents. Now he is going off to war. It will just take me a while to adjust.  It is lot to grasp.

Comment by TexasDocMom on April 5, 2013 at 1:47pm

Curelytop...the first thing is to remember that you are not alone, we all know that fear, we all know the tears...and there is nothing wrong with crying...it helps a lot...do it, wipe your eyes, wash your face and get on with your day. Another thing is that you have to remember, you remember a little boy, a teenager ....and that's who you see going to a war zone. The Navy sees a green side Corpsman who will earn his FMF and be the "Doc"...just like many of our sons and daughters are now Docs. And those Marines and the other Docs have a tendency to look after the younger guys...I remember my 24 year old son referring to a 19 year old "he is just a kid..."and I had to laugh. Your son is well trained, moving forward in his Navy career and learning more every day. If you haven't already, you'll hear that "professional" voice soon....and then he'll fall back into the "son" voice. One time my son read something on the boards here on N4M that should not have been out yet...and I got a call and a full dose of that "professional" voice.."get that off that board, those parents don't need to read about that on an internet forum". ...I will never forget it. But I still heard "I love you" at the end of the call, just like I have since the day he called the first time on his deployment to Iraq. It will change your son, but many of those changes will be maturity and good growth. You're going to get through this, we're going to help you. You are not alone.

Comment by Curleytop on April 5, 2013 at 11:41am

Hello everyone,

My son is a corpsman that will deploy this fall for the sand box.  He left us four weeks after his high school graduation last May.  So he has done boot camp, A-school, FMTB, and is now at his permenant station for 3 1/2 years.  His first assigment is the sandbox.  I have been so proud of all his accomplishments, but these last orders have me shaken.  Some days I am OK and some days I am not.  I can hardly write this for the tears.  I think I will break apart from within, yet I cannot let anyone here know, especially my son.  I do not what him to worry about anything here.  He needs to concentrate on his job.  I know he will.  I read your comments and wonder how do you survive.  I have already started praying for him and his units saftey.

Comment by yelomoon on April 4, 2013 at 1:21am

Thanks everyone. I am behind on the news. Was thinking the Korean thing would happen. I hoped I would be wrong.  Praying for all them! I will have to catch up on that. I even got to meet my seabees sailor mom.  She even made a sign for her. I was glad we had the chance to meet her and breifly speak with her. I had no idea what a sailor mom was. I have learned just a little bit more about the navy life. :)

How impressive it was. Nothing to flashy just short sweet and another moment I will always treasure. Thank you Navy!

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