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Micky D.
![That was a photo of me and my pet monkey in the Philippines. I tried to reintroduce it to other monkeys shortly after I bought it, [but] the other monkeys won't have anything to do with her. So, she's kind of like an outsider. So, we got along pretty well, and as long as I was relaxed, she was relaxed. I learned a lot of neat lessons from having that monkey around; patience and self-control, mostly.](img/vets/vet_mickyd_monkey.jpg)
![That’s after a medication reaction. You know, in the VA, [they] conduct research. Most of medicine is practice and research, so you just keep trying [stuff] until something works. I only take half of [the medicine] I should, because it makes me like a zombie. Like a non-feeling husk of a human being...So, I'd much rather be an angry, hypervigilant, nervous, human being than a husk.](img/vets/vet_mickyd_adverse_rxn.jpg)
![I don't really like staying in one place for very long. People do different things with that. I chose to get as far away from English speakers as possible. It’s tough for me to function in normal American society. I don't know why. I tried dealing with it different ways. I’ve spent lot of time out in the woods. Some people call it [being] homeless; I call it being an outdoorsman.](img/vets/vet_mickyd_bus.jpg)
Micky enjoys travel and spends part of the year living in the Philippines. He describes himself as an outdoorsman; he has hiked the Appalachian Trail, climbed a volcano, and run with the bulls in Spain. He says he meets many fellow Veterans hiking the Appalachian Trail; they like to help each other and other hikers along the trail using survival skills they learned in the military.
