Follow-up: Walter Reed - "A Wife's Battle" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post
Follow-up: Walter Reed - "A Wife's Battle" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post
When Her Soldier Returned From Baghdad, Michelle Turner Picked Up the Burden of War
"Michelle has spent hundreds of hours at the library researching complicated VA policies and disability regulations. 'You need two college degrees to understand any of it,' she says, lacking both. She scavenges information where she can find it. A psychotic Vietnam vet she met in a VA hospital was the one who told her that Troy might be eligible for Social Security benefits. Meanwhile, there are clothes to wash, meals to cook, kids to get ready for school and a husband who is placidly medicated or randomly explosive. Besides PTSD, Michelle suspects that Troy may have a brain injury, which could explain how a 38-year-old man who used to hunt and fish can lose himself in a three-day "Scooby-Doo" marathon on the Cartoon Network."
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