I have been married almost eleven years. All those years have been to an active duty Navy man. He has been on long deployments three times to the Middle East area and has been on several short term (1 to 3 months) deployments as well. Two of the three deployments, I was not near a Naval base and did not get any support.
Yesterday, my daughter crashed her head into a glass end-table at my MILs and I spent hours in an Army hospital getting her checked out for a concussion. Fortunately, my MIL lives only a few miles from the Army base in Colorado Springs, so I left my son with them and took her there. By the time I got back to Aurora, it was very late in the night. I got home from work today and slept for three hours before my son woke me up to tell me he was going to bed. I felt so bad that I have not gotten to spend more than a few minutes of quality time with my children in the last few days (unless you count holding a crying child in the ER for a few hours.) I am SO worn out.