Seal @ MindSay 
Okay, usually I don't promote anyone rushing their kids to the doctor. My Mom's is a 38 year vetran RN nurse, who perferred and still does natural remedies to going to the doctor right away. Hell she even stitched up my eyebrow at a Softball tournie in highschool because I refused to leave to go to ER! But she also taught me, to take the kids to the doctor when needed.
Well PLEASE folks, take your kids tot he doctor sooner than later this year. Don't be like me! It bite me in the ass putting Coltin's doctor's appontment off till yesterday. He has a sever upper respatory infection and is wheezing like an asmatic person. But I don't feel guilty or bad about not taking him earlier because he showed no signs that he was in destress until I made the appointment. Even the doctor was suprised that he wasn't rattling like most folks do, no snot coming down from the nose or up from the lungs.
Coltin is now on a course of zithromax and a steriod to help with the wheezing! No fevers though so he can go back to school today. I kept him home yesterday because the poor boy was miserable from the coughing and I took him to the doctor to boot.
If he isn't better by the time I go into the doctor next week for my 3-4 month labs and check, I am to take him with me for an x-ray and we will start breathing treatments. Thank GODS my Mom has my Granny's breathing machine all I will need is prescription for the meds then. I think he will be better though, so far this morning, he has had 2 doses of the antibotics and 3 doses of the steriods and he sounds soooooooooooo much better. Plus the doctor said I could continue over the counter cough medicines and cough drops. So the couging is still there but not as bad as it was!
This year the way the weather has been is going to be ruff on us with viruses and bactieral infectiosn folks. I strongly suggest that you keep a vareity of over the counter and home remedy items on hand and take yourself, your kids, and your elders to the doctor sooner rather than later this year! Don't be like me!
My poor boy barks like a seal though. It gets to the point I want to start looking around for the other seals to join him! Then I get this picture in my head about some sea lion coming up and eating my baby while he is eating! Yay. I have an odd mind I tell ya! And of course the sea lion has the face of the doctor! Isn't that some shit!
They all told me that I seem, cold, distant and at times unfriendly - and I do realize that from time to time I may seem like I have a wall up...a fence really... okay so it's the highest castle walls in the sky, drawbridge drawn up tight, and the moat is filled with piranha. I swore I would never let anyone in again and me being me must have left a back castle door open somewhere, I must have gotten forgetful. That and the universe has made it so that I can't hide. Not that I was really trying to... more like trying to hide in plain sight...
So one of the bf's said to me that life was circular (mmhmm, sounds very familiar) and obviously (and I'm paraphrasing here, telling you all what I got out of this conversation) the universe has sent me back here to resolve all old issues so that I could keep going, I believe spiral was the exact word, and upwards would be nice... we all know you can't go upwards dragging baggage (not that I haven't tried... not that we all haven't tried)
And do love has found me again. I wish we had English words for types of love~ we have romantic love, sexual love, friendship love, family love, puppy love (and of course cat love) and not one of us can live without love. We all have it to give, and maybe if we just let ourselves.... we can accept it too...
Which leads me to my next confession, there's a reason I hide, that all this hurt has built walls... x0ximissyoux0x if you're reading this... I've been there, don't let it ruin your life like it ruined mine. Know that it will never go away, never heal in the way you want... but heal you will. Tell. Tell the world, don't keep it in, secrets will kill your soul. And suddenly you'll find yourself one day wishing the pain would leave but never knowing how to make it go away. You'll carry it as I have done, healing everyone else but myself... and suddenly one day you'll come face to face with your past and if you're as blessed as I am someone will love you enough to help you heal, several someones if you're as luck as I am.
I've been blessed enough to have someone, again, several someones see me for who I am. Usually I am the one who sees, not this time.... I've been seen.
So...
It's my time to heal, to spiral upwards if I can... and I'm not alone.
And x0ximissyoux0x? Neither are you... we're here, we're all here....
Seal ~ Love's Divine ~
Then the rainstorm came, over me
And I felt my spirit break
I had lost all of my, belief you see
And realized my mistake
But time through a prayer, to me
And all around me became still
I need love, love's divine
Please forgive me now I see that I've been blind
Give me love, love is what I need to help me know my name
Through the rainstorm came sanctuary
And I felt my spirit fly
I had found all of my reality
I realize what it takes
'Cause I need love, love's divine
Please forgive me now I see that I've been blind
Give me love, love is what I need to help me know my name
Oh I, don't bet (don't bend), don't break (don't break)
Show me how to live and promise me you won't forsake
'Cause love can help me know my name
Well I try to say there's nothing wrong
But inside I felt me lying all along
But the message here was plain to see
Believe me
'Cause I need love, love's divine
Please forgive me now I see that I've been blind
Give me love, love is what I need to help me know my name
Oh I, don't bet (don't bend), don't break (don't break)
Show me how to live and promise me you won't forsake
'Cause love can help me know my name
Love can help me know my name.
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
May 25, 2007 – Two Navy SEALs who recently returned from Iraq shared some of their combat experiences and described the progress they witnessed in Anbar province, during a panel discussion yesterday at the Naval Heritage Center here. Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian, a heavy weapons operator and breacher, and Lt. Chris, SEAL Team Five Bravo Platoon's commander, are identified only by their first names for security reasons. They spent seven months in Anbar province training Iraqi security forces to operate independently.
The SEALs painted an unfiltered picture of their experience on Camp Corregidor in the city of Ramadi, which was mortared an average of three times a day when they first arrived.
"No matter where we went, whether it was a PortoJon, the chow hall, wherever, if you left 25, 50 meters outside of your base or outside your barracks, you had to have full kit on," Brian said.
As platoon commander leading a foreign internal defense mission, Chris held the reins in "developing Iraqi security force capability to fight insurgents or terrorists, in order to create a self-sustaining and capable Iraqi security force," the lieutenant said.
During SEAL operations the platoon brought six to 10 Iraqis who either led or followed, depending on operational and tactical requirements.
"We would go in at night under the cover of darkness and get positioned to overwatch or basically provide support for an operation during the daytime," Chris said. "We're in there shaping the operation for decisive action.
"So we get setup and we're checking the environment out, looking at the battle space," Chris said. "And as the Army's coming through and we're kind of covering them, we get attacked pretty heavily."
Brian, who was closer to the enemy than Chris, recalled the ensuing ambush.
"(The platoon) was in three different operating positions. Our operating position started taking fire," Brain said. "It was ineffective - shots against the wall, stuff like that - we took a couple grenades against the side of the building.
"Shortly after, our two buddies who were down the street about 100 meters from me, they took heavy fire - rocket-propelled grenade attacks," he said. "One of my buddies got fragged pretty good.
"So when they called in a Quick Reaction Force to come pick him up, we had two Iraqis open the door and go out in the street. Well sometime during the night there was an IED left out there for him. It was either command-detonated or pressure-plate," Brian said. "It was detonated; the Iraqi lost both of his legs at the waist.
"Two other guys were hurt really bad - my buddy Joe and my buddy Elliott - took it pretty bad," Brian said. "Everybody bagged out of our operational positions. Once we heard guys were down we bagged out of there - we took off running down the street; running and gunning."
Brian, Chris and the other SEALs consolidated near their "wounded brothers."
"We grabbed both guys and brought them in a house and started taking care of the wounded to getting those guys ready for transport," Brian said.
Elliott, one of the two wounded, was the biggest corpsman on their team - weighing 250 lbs. without gear, Chris recalled.
"He was laying there bleeding out, and he was telling us how to fix Joe, with no concern for himself," Chris said. "That pretty much sums up Navy SEAL corpsmen."
Meanwhile, aerial surveillance showed "bad guys jumping roof to roof coming after us," Brian said.
"So Chris had a great idea," Brian explained. "He said, 'Everybody (get beneath) a door jamb, get down low, and I'm going to have these Bradley (infantry fighting vehicles) come through here and take off the second decks of all these houses."
In a bold decision, Chris ordered enough ordnance to destroy the second-story of the building in which they were taking cover, and where the enemy fighters were positioned.
"It worked great!" Chris said in a Texas twang and with a wide smile.
The tank artillery campaign crippled the insurgency, what Chris remembered as "two distinct 30-minute periods of intense" fire fights. After the heavy tank reinforcements arrived, Brian, equipped with a machinegun, said he "went through about 800 rounds total."
The mission the SEALs described was one of roughly 65 direct-action combat operations they engaged in during their time in Anbar province, including an operation on the following night.
To illustrate symbols of the cultural progress they witnessed, Brian and Chris projected photographs on a large screen before the audience here.
In one image, a group of Sunni and Shiite members of the Iraqi army carry the casket of a deceased Iraqi soldier as a U.S. Army Colonel looks on. The wooden coffin is draped in an Iraqi flag.
"This is the norm," Chris said. "This is what you're seeing on a daily basis; combined tribal and combined religious connection at things like funerals, mission planning out on operations. It's amazing."
In another one of Chris' slides, Iraqi police and civilians celebrate boisterously on a crowded street.
"After we were able to clear the city of (the enemy) in Eastern Ramadi, the people are able to go to the market, they're able to talk with Iraqi policemen out in the street openly, U.S. forces were able to patrol out in the street," Chris said. "It used to be very dangerous for us to even go down the road because of improvised explosive devices and sniper attacks and small-arms fire attacks."
In another picture, Chris and another SEAL flank a smiling Arab.
"Tribal engagement," Chris said. "This is us with Sheik Jossum up in Sofia, which was the genesis of the whole 'tribal awakening.'
"We trained them in foreign internal defensive and they eventually were able to bring other tribes on board and it really opened up the Anbar province," he said.
After conducting about 110 combat operations with Iraqi security forces in Anbar, the mortaring at Camp Corregidor in Ramadi stopped, Brian recalled.
"We were free to exercise on base," Brian said. "We were free to use the bathroom without having a helmet and body armor on."
Chris added, "That was about the best experience of the whole six months."
Article sponsored by criminal justice online leadership; and, police and military personnel who have authored books.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Marc A. Lee, 28, of Hood River, Ore., was killed on Aug. 2 during combat operations while on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq. Lee was an aviation ordnanceman and a member of a West Coast-based SEAL Team.
For further information related to this release, contact Naval Special Warfare Command public affairs at (619) 522-2824.
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