Thursday, November 09, 2006
The Lifeline: A three-part Los Angeles Times series following the lives of soldiers wounded in Iraq - L.A. Times
I think maybe I just need a couple of days without getting blown up.
— Army Spc. Corbin Foster
Vincent Worrell lay shivering on a trauma bay. He felt something in his mouth. He sat up and spat fragments of his front teeth into a bedpan. They were mixed with blood and tissue torn from inside his mouth.He heard someone say: "Significant laceration to the cheek and lip." And then: "Frag under the eye … frag in the face … frag in the shoulder … possible thumb fracture."
A bomb fashioned from two mortar rounds had detonated a few feet behind Worrell, an Army staff sergeant, as he walked on patrol near Tall Afar on the morning of Nov. 6. Now he was inside the Air Force Theater Hospital, a tight web of interlocking tents set up on packed sand 50 miles north of Baghdad....
"My wife's going to be pissed," he told the doctor. "She specifically gave me instructions not to get perforated over here." ...
I think maybe I just need a couple of days without getting blown up.
— Army Spc. Corbin Foster
Vincent Worrell lay shivering on a trauma bay. He felt something in his mouth. He sat up and spat fragments of his front teeth into a bedpan. They were mixed with blood and tissue torn from inside his mouth.He heard someone say: "Significant laceration to the cheek and lip." And then: "Frag under the eye … frag in the face … frag in the shoulder … possible thumb fracture."
A bomb fashioned from two mortar rounds had detonated a few feet behind Worrell, an Army staff sergeant, as he walked on patrol near Tall Afar on the morning of Nov. 6. Now he was inside the Air Force Theater Hospital, a tight web of interlocking tents set up on packed sand 50 miles north of Baghdad....
"My wife's going to be pissed," he told the doctor. "She specifically gave me instructions not to get perforated over here." ...
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