back after being injured. you think that your life is over. you think you are not going to have the same quality in life. i had to deal with that. sitting in a hospital room by myself, with nothing but your thoughts. you start rationalizing and prioritizing things in your life. you set obtainable goals. when you build goals like that and you can start reading them, it takes away thepr negativity f the healing process. sergeant goudie, just a year later, he was ready to deploy again. when i came back from walter reed after all the surgeries in 2012, i signed back into work on january of 2013. i think the difficulties of deploying with an injury first starts with your mental outlook, being able to prove to yourself that you can do it, instill the confidence and trust in your teammates that you are an asset, not a liability. i think that was the most difficult. john is always the person who