Things Fall Apart

In two days my husband, PV2 Cooper, will be graduating AIT at Fort Eustis, VA. I've been waiting for this day since he left the very first time on January 3rd of this year and it has finally arrived. Twenty nine weeks of not living, seeing, breathing my husband. I thought it would never end. I would finally get to live with him again and have my other half apart of me. Getting assigned Alaska has probably been the most hardest thing I have had to endure being an Army wife. Today I finally fell apart.

Last week I was diagnosed with High-risk HPV that could be giving me cancer. At first I was scared and upset, but my husband and my babies gave me so much strength and inspiration I'm ready for whatever happens. It was today when the EFMP (Equal Family Medical Program) manager told Jon the bad news that crushed me. My civillian Doctor had forgot to inform me that he had referred my daughter to an orthopedic specialist for her boed-legs and requested Aron to be re-screened. Without my daughter seeing the specialist and my son to be screened again, and the paperwork getting processed in time, I will not be allowed to leave for Alaska with my husband. I was devestated.

Going through all of these hardships for all these months without the very man who completed me was about to pay off. Being left behind feels unfair to me. All because a civillian doctor didn't do his job correctly. After breaking into pieces and seeing how hard my husband was trying to fix everything when he was hundreds of miles away,gave me the fuel I needed to step up. I was assertive and luckily I am getting my son seen tomorrow and my daughter to atlanta the next day. After Aeva gets finished we are leaving straight from there to Virginia. I can only do what I have control over and have faith in things that I do not. I'm going to take my soldier home after graduation and enjoy every second of it. If i'm not in Alaska with him on August 3rd I will be up there soon. Never give up. We're Army Strong