Laurie Buckhout: “I needed two bags, IV bags, to walk in my own battalion…”

“So I came back, and I'm not a big girl. I lost 20 pounds, just couldn't eat, was depressed. And what it was was that chemical reaction of you no longer have that adrenaline stimuli. I needed two bags, IV bags, to walk in my own battalion. Change of command. And I look at the videos now, and I look like Skeletor. So I got. I got treatment, and very tedious. I was assigned to the Pentagon, and I was kind of wasting away.” (16:25–16:30)

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