Closure?

[poliphilo]

We wound ourselves up with jokes about going to Mordor (the sky obligingly clouded over and it started to rain) but when we actually arrived at the Duchess of Kent Hospital in Catterick everything was very pleasant and unmilitary and the very nice psychiatrist spent an hour and a half with Joe and concluded by telling him that he'd write a letter to his (Joe's) C.O. recommending he be discharged.

So that was it? Apparently so.

I came away feeling rather flat.

But, of course, it's wonderful. Joe can now get on with the rest of his life....

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yay, indeed.

[dadi.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy to read this!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess it's the end of the beginning, Now he has to start thinking about getting a job.

[shullie.livejournal.com]

so glad for Joe and it must be a big releif to you too

xxx

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a huge relief. I can't quite believe it's been resolved so simply.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!!!

I can see that it's kind of anticlimactic after the other night.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I thought we'd have a fight on our hands.....

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I came here first thing this morning to see if there might be a resolution for Joe, and there is! I'm so glad.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a great relief.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

wonderful news for Joe and for you.

He CAN get on with the rest of his life. I will never understand why it's so easy to get into the Armed Forces and so difficult to get out of them.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"I will never understand why it's so easy to get into the Armed Forces and so difficult to get out of them."

Me neither. But I guess the dice are always loaded in favour of the powerful.

[queen-in-autumn.livejournal.com]

So glad to hear this!

It seems to happen this way a lot: Really Big Episodes ultimately getting resolved in a very quiet, mundane.

My rational mind may say, better a quiet chat with a doc than the Battle of Peleannor Field, but there's another part of me that would have liked to triumph in high drama, with a John Williams soundtrack behind me.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We've been so psyched up about this that the resolution seems unreal.

I reckon it'll take me a while to get used to the new situation.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not over until he actually gets his discharge papers.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's true and there's the possibility that the C.O. could reject the psychiatrist's advice.

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

Heaven forbid.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's unlikely...

Amnd there could be no real motive for it but vindictiveness.