Pastrychef, thank you for your wishes for Evie. She is around the forum a bit however having a break at the moment, so I will pass on your wishes to her.

Colin is Evie's brother. To explain, we have had 3 members of our family, other than Evie, suffering from Combat PTSD. One drank himself to death, one committed suicide, and the third, my eldest son, died in an accident as an indirect result of his PTSD. So to put it briefly, because of the experiences of our family, to Evie, Military equals PTSD, and PTSD equals Death. We feel the same way as Evie, in that we almost worry more about Colin getting PTSD than we do about him dying! Though obviously for Evie it is very intense as she does have the PTSD herself and does not handle stress as well as we do.

Thank you for sharing your story. It is good that you remained calm, I was that way most of the time as well, even when Jim was shot 15 years ago, I was very calm and collected. Though I'm not certain I would be now. In any event, I am thankful your husband was unharmed.

ah! thank you for explaining. I am so sorry for your loss. i can see where ptsd could scare and frighten anyone in that situation.

thank you for your kind words, its nice to hear your story and get a insight into the ptsd that surrounds you.

Kathy,

I'm so sorry to hear that Evie's been going through such a rough time. I think Lisa expressed my feelings very well.

I am glad to hear your therapy is going well. Keep up the good work.

Please tell Evie I'm thinking of her and hope she can once again feel as good about herself as so many of us do.

Hodge

Thank you Hodge. She is feeling quite a bit better now however still resting and not too active on the forum. She requires an extended rest as this "attack" was quite severe, the PTSD part of it that is. The weather has been quite nice here so she was out with me yesterday and may go out with Jim today.