NewMexiKen received a Christmas letter from a good friend who volunteers at the Occupational Therapy Clinic at Walter Reed Army Medical Center teaching amputees how to cook. (Bless you, Jeanne.)
Jeanne writes:
It’s amazing how upbeat they are and determined not to be defeated or defined by their injuries. While we were eating the Thanksgiving meal, one of the amputees, who’s really into cooking said, “The good thing about eating dinner with a bunch of amputees is there’s plenty of leg room under the table.”
She continues:
They joke and fool around and have a really good time–the current bunch especially. The downside, of course, is the missing limbs and sixty percent of the amputees have traumatic brain injuries. IEDs have a lot to answer for.