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...claim to be as uncomfortable as McLeod himself, who watched a small spot – “just a bump or a pimple or what-not” – swell to frightening proportions in the space of only a day. Even after intravenous antibiotics and bed-rest had brought the foot back to customary proportions, the affair was far from over. “I’ve been going through a pretty intense ordeal. The school had me…put into separate housing. They were pretty aggressive with treating [the infection] and making sure...
...parents would probably prefer if the laundry (collecting on the floor for weeks or more) gets appropriately washed/dried before the trip home,” Pollack wrote. “I’ve fielded many questions from distraught parents (some of Harvard students) who seem to have acquired bed bugs in this manner...
...thigh. There, I learned that everyone else in the back of the humvee had survived, though Jenks had serious leg wounds, Beverly had knee and hand injuries and Nachtwey had taken shrapnel in his knees and abdomen. The next morning, a middle-aged nurse with blond highlights approached my bed...
...first one through the door when visiting hours began. He and Olivia bounded onto my bed, showering me with hugs and get-well posters. Dressed in camouflage pants, Skyler before long had grabbed a roll of gauze and wound it around his right hand. He was identifying with my loss, a gesture I saw as a sign of forgiveness. I had shaken his sense of safety, the security blanket only a father can provide. Skyler's act of generosity capped a day of pardons across three generations of Weisskopf males...
...only of myself, taking on a dangerous mission as if others didn't deserve a say, as if the chance of success for me was more important than the certainty of fatherhood for my kids. I didn't weigh the risk to them until I lay bleeding in the bed of a humvee, too late to spare them the fright...