PTSD:“You never know what will take place in the house,” says Mom

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For Randal and Dianna Bagby, life with their son Zachary (left), who was diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq, has its uncertainties. “You never know what will take place in the house,” Dianna Bagby said.

Kin share suffering of one who served
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By MALCOLM GARCIA
The Kansas City Star

Randal Bagby can still experience the joy he felt when his oldest son, Zachary, came home from Iraq a little more than two years ago.

He also remembers his shock at the drinking. The flashbacks. The emergency drives to Kansas City Veterans Hospital.

Since then, Zachary, 25, has improved. Not as much as his father would like, certainly, but it’s a process of incremental steps that he and his family have come to accept. Zachary returned alive from war, but in some ways was lost despite his survival. He is here but not here. He escaped death, but didn’t come back. Not completely.
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