[post_page_title]Internal scars[/post_page_title]
Apart from the surgical issues, there were also the psychological aspects that had to be dealt with. The scars went deeper than the flesh. Dr. Malone recalls visiting Carpenter back in 2011 ‘I think it was the first time since his injury that he was talking to me with a clear mind..other Marines would always come in to visit him and he didn’t like them seeing him how he looked. It wasn’t that Kyle seemed self-conscious. He knew they were deploying to Afghanistan soon, and he didn’t want them to worry more about being injured like he had been.’