LEWISTON – When Army Spc. David Saucier awoke in a Walter Reed hospital bed two weeks ago, all he wanted was Trina Turgeon, his fiancee.

“I didn’t even know where I was,” Saucier said Monday. “But she was right by my side.”

She hasn’t left.

Turgeon skipped graduation with her Oak Hill High School class last week to stay close to Saucier as he recovers from injuries from a roadside bomb in Iraq.

“Between her and my father, they haven’t left me,” Saucier said in a telephone interview from his hospital room. “They go in shifts. One is always here.”

He and Turgeon have decided to make things more permanent, moving up the date of their Sept. 8 wedding.

“Things have settled down a little bit now, so I can start the process,” he said. “We’ll get married soon, as soon as we can.”

Saucier, 21, suffered a broken pelvis and intestinal injuries on June 3 as he was returning to his base at the front of a convoy. An improvised explosive device hit the front of the truck he was riding on, disabling it and injuring him.

“It was a special IED,” he said. Made of a sheet of brass, it was designed to form a baseball-sized metal bullet.

Saucier was a gunner on a truck, providing security for convoys that travel between Kuwait and Iraq. He was serving with the 133rd Engineering Battalion, based out of Lewiston.

The 2004 Oak Hill High School graduate was one of about 90 Mainers attached to a Wisconsin battalion. One of his friends, Sgt. Richard Parker of Phillips, was killed last week. Saucier worries about the others.

“But all I can do is hope they stay safe,” he said.

He was evacuated from Iraq on June 4 and flown to a U.S. Army hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, before being transferred to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

“Once we got to a little hospital there, they put me under,” he said. “I woke up in Walter Reed; I guess it was two days later.”

Doctors treat him every few days, cleaning his wound. He is still in intensive care, but feeling better.

“Each time, they learn more and they have more information,” he said. He expects to stay at the hospital for a couple of months.

Before he was injured, Saucier was due to return home in July, having served his year in Iraq. Now, he doubts he’ll be home soon enough to make the Sept. 8 wedding.

“But we’re going to move it up, and do it here,” he said. “We’ve just started talking about it. I don’t know when, but we’ll do it as soon as we can.”