Kitten to Cat

by Carl D. Schultz

Carl D. Schultz was born in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1963. A graduate of Meridian High School in Meridian, Mississippi in 1981, and Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi in 1986. With graduation I was commissioned as an Infantry Second Lieutenant. Shortly after, stationed at Ft. Benning for Infantry, Airborne, and Ranger Schools before almost a year in Bamberg, FDR. As a Mechanized Infantry Platoon Leader, I survived a Traumatic Brain Injury from a car wreck off duty. The injury included a coma, beginning on 31 October 1987 that I wake from slowly on 18 May 1988. Intensive speech, occupational, and physical rehabilitation occur with mixed success. Being paraplegic along with speech troubles somehow slowly shrink cognitively. My life goes on in my own house alone for a decade, where I meet someone in middle 1999. We thankfully marry in middle 2000, having kids in 2001 and 2003.