Can you tell if you are stressed???

I can by the tightness of my TMJ, if I have it clenched, then something is brewing and it’s exciting…

I know the first stroke happend on Japan outside Johnson AFB and I did loose most of my first 14 years, but by the time we left to move to Okinawa, I was back to as normal as you can be after a bleed on the brain…

Now Okinawa and that last blow, that I could have sworn caused a stroke, I am thinking it’s not likely and that it was most likely heat exhaustion…

Now lets fast forward to 1985 or 86 and SARs hits the far east… and I got it…

Back then no one worried about it, but as I bowled in my adult league at Yokota AFB, I was so sick by the last game, I could barely see the pins, let alone walk straight…

I bowled 9 strikes in a row and in the 10th a spare and strike… The bowling alley stood behind our group in silence waiting to see if they were going to see a 300 by this kid…

Look under Margaret Glass, Yokota AFB bowling alley, I doubt anyone beat me, with my handicap…

By the time we got home I dropped and I don’t remember anything for about a months time… Just like Johnson AFB, when the stroke hit at 14…

People were dying, just like COVID 19… that too is SARs and people died at the base, and the hospital was overflowing, so, neighbors were checking neighbors in base housing and while John was at duty, our neighbor Jan, would come over, make sure I was breathing and responding and would go back to her duplex next door…

I have no memory of it, except the bowling alley and after I recovered we volunteered for 4 more years and the next thing I know, we are back stateside, but not for the SARs, but for a misdiagnosis of Pagets…

So I don’t remember our flying to Okinawa or our leaving Okinawa, but I do remember our arrival stateside and I do remember the rest of my life and that has me wondering…

When the 2nd stroke hit???

Wasn’t Okinawa, so when???

While active duty??? or as a dependent wife on Japan during SARs outbreak???

The fact that I have narrowed down time lines this good is what I hoped would happen after the El Paso VA fuck up in anesthesia in 2011, November!!!

If this keeps up… There won’t be any more exploration, its all about the writing…

I remember…

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