Upon discharge, I headed off to what became a four-year journey hitchhiking through parts of Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and 9,000 miles in Africa.
After writing that book I had some extra worry to discharge, I think, a story about the hellish love a parent can feel, the impossibility of it, like a desire that keeps backfiring into your body.
After discharge, I wrote a letter detailing my experience to the hospital, the governing boards, the state board of medical examiners, the insurance investigation unit and various accrediting agencies.
As an Army veteran — I left in 1990, with an honorable discharge — I was struck by the close, if indirect, association between the role of women in the military and that of gays.
Upon discharge, I went to the front office to pay my bill, and was told that I owed nothing for the service, and that a taxi was waiting at the entrance to take my wife and me back to my hotel.
After hospital discharge, I'd wake up in the night with the unnerving noises of ICU going round in my head.
