Remind me again about how much better off the military is now that Bush has replaced Satan Clinton as commander-in-chief....

After Army Sgt. Vannessa Turner survived a still-unknown illness doctors feared would kill her, she thought her toughest battle was over.

But since a military flight brought Turner home she says she's had to fight to get medical treatment and can't even get personal items returned....

Arriving at her mother's home in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood last month after hospital stays in Germany and Washington, the six-year Army veteran says she was told that despite severe nerve damage in her right leg she'd have to wait until mid-October to see a doctor at the local Veterans Affairs hospital....

Veterans' advocates said Turner's frustration is not unusual. More than 110,000 veterans are waiting six months or more for their initial visit with a VA doctor or to see a specialist, the VA acknowledges....

The story goes on to point out that at one point Turner stopped breathing, and doctors thought she had only days to live. She has a fifteen-year-old daughter. When she was hospitalized in Germany, Senators Kennedy and Kerry had to intercede to get her family flown over. And now she's expected to fly herself back there to get her stuff.

Think Cheney ever goes through anything like this when he gets a chest twinge?