‘They Keep Telling Me I’m Crazy’: A Navy SEAL’s Desperate Search for Answers About His Own Brain...

SGT Robert Pryor I'd give anything to have your attitude and the ability to do all the things you do. Maybe after this next and hopefully last surgery.

SPC Richard Zacke - Good luck on your surgery and I salute your old friend SGT Raines. You don't want all of my attitude. I've been known to be quite the curmudgeon at times. Don't get me started talking about politicians, even those for whom I voted.

SPC Richard Zacke - One last point. For several decades the VA doctors were always harping on what I couldn't do -- rather than focusing on what I could do. So I did those things anyway. They particularly hated my farming and operating heavy equipment. Finally, in 2007, my VA doctor surrendered when I told her "I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." (a Jimmy Buffett quote) She signed off on my SCUBA physical and told me I could do whatever I wanted. The VA has been supportive of my endeavors ever since.

SGT Robert Pryor I know their glad to have you around there like you said in an earlier post. You had them laughing and having fun. And I forgot my neck surgey in April is not my last, they still have to fuse my sacariliac joints, then I'm done. If were gonna keep writing we should send our emails were using this post up.