Finally got around to taking photos of my x-rays from Hanscom. As you can see, the surgeons had to re-align the head of the femur before screwing the three titanium screws into my leg.
Adrienne says the procedure can be done with minimally invasive techniques, using only a small incision to achieve correct results. This is [...]

According to a Staff Sergeant in Quantico, in order for my injury to be covered under the military’s insurance, I needed a consult with a military physician, since I lived within 50 miles of a base.
Yesterday Adrienne and I made our way out to Hanscom Air Force Base, located about 30 minutes from my house. [...]

Dear Mike,
It has been brought to my attention that you were recently injured at Officer Candidates School. While injuries in the program are common, candidates continuing to train on stress fractures until the bone breaks are rare indeed. Your perseverance and dedication demonstrated a lot of fortitude in the face of pain. For health reasons [...]

Just got off the phone with a friend from Missouri who is still at OCS. His name is next to mine in the alphabet so we were rackmates and always had firewatch together.
He was on liberty on his way back to the base and thought he’d give me a call. SULE II (Small Unit Leadership [...]

It has been ten days since my surgery at Bethesda. It is amazing how much things have changed since then. As expected, my movement in the hospital bed was mainly limited to my upper body. I could move my feet a little and could wiggle my toes, something the docs made me do regularly. Two [...]

A femoral neck fracture occurs just below the ball of the ball-and-socket hip joint; this region is called the femoral neck. When a femoral neck fracture occurs, the ball is disconnected from the rest of the femur.
The most important issue with my femoral neck fracture is that the blood supply to the fractured portion of [...]

I was discharged from Bethesda at 1030 yesterday but didn’t get out of the pharmacy until 1230. Even though they prescribed 2 weeks worth of percocet, they could only give me 45 pills. I wasn’t about to leave with only a few days worth of meds, so we waited until things were sorted out upstairs [...]