Rule Number Two by Heidi Squier Kraft

Author:Heidi Squier Kraft
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: HIS027170
ISBN: 9780316022972
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2007-10-23T21:00:00+00:00

For two days, Lance Corporal Adams stayed on our ward. She did not speak a single word the entire time. Her outward emotional presence clearly indicated significant depression, but without her really speaking to us, it was difficult to ascertain anything else about her experience. The only thing clear to me was that my hands were tied. In a normal situation, I would have time to work with her and help her move toward the appropriate treatment. Out here, I knew only one thing: she needed to go home.

At the end of the two days, the lance corporal’s unit brought her a small bag of her personal items. She shook my hand, making eye contact for the first time, and together we walked down the passageway, out the back door, and across the field to the medevac helicopter. Jason had started her on an antidepressant medication, but she knew her recovery would also include intensive therapy (which we had arranged) once she returned home. She spoke the only words I heard from her immediately before her departure. She told me she was ready to get better.

I believed her.

As she placed her bag between her boots and the flight medic helped her fasten her seat belt, she peered out the open hatch at me.

I am not sure, but I think I saw the faintest trace of hope in her small smile.

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