so yesterday was AMAZING!!! i went to visit justin. he is in san diego now, so i went with my mom, aunt, and sis to go see him. i am humbled by his strength! his is so positive i love it!! we laughed and laughed and laughed the whole time! he showed us his legs and his butt. he he he! only our family! lol! he has some seriously gnarly scars. his arm is the worst part and i could tell that was the root of most of his pain. he lost bone, tendons, and has nerve damage. he took off his cast to show us that too. :) they never did any skin grafts, but he had 11 surgery's so far. they had to stretch the skin on his arm to get it to close... he stepped on a home made land mine. so the good news about that was that there was no shrapnel involved! his right leg took the brunt of the explosion, that's why it is the shorter one, and why his right arm was hit. so my family is sick, i think i have mentioned that before right?? we dance on our loved one's graves... and we take pix of war wounds! lol! my sis took pix of his legs and his arm.. and his ass! ha! the best was his leg cause he held it up and made a face like a dude who just caught a big fish!! lol!! that was soo funny! he got himself in his motorized wheel chair and we walked around the hospital court yard. while we were out there i said, "hey you want us to go get you some real food?" because he is not allowed to leave the property. he went ooo that sounds good! then the next thing i know, we are loading him into my mom's car and taking him to t.g.i.fridays!! he was like f**k it! lets go! he got a normal wheel chair so we could load that into the car and away we went! it was his first time out since he got to california. he was able to take the tour in maryland though. so he's been out, but not in ca. :) we got him back in plenty of time! we ran into his buddies who were coming to visit so we passed him off to them and away we went. it was so wonderful! the only sad part was at fridays, he was hurting at the end. and he didn't finish his steak. i think it was the wheel chair. it wasn't comfy at all. i guess he gets the phantom pain to the point of having to take meds. so he was kinda having that. but he did good. he is one amazing person! i can't wait to go back and see  him! there is so much more drama surrounding that day. but i wanted to post just the good right now. perhaps later i tell you all the rest. but honestly, the good outweighs the bad!! hope you all have a great saturday! ((((hugs)))))~ alysia