Update-
Appeal rated and finished, payments authorized today, letter mailed from San Diego today 3/7/18.
Of course peggy would not tell me the ratings but surprisingly she told me there were multiple retro payments authorized and she'd be willing to tell me the $ amounts of them. So I wrote all 13 payments down and totaled them up, it comes out to what 80% rating back to 2003 would be, with no P&T or IU. So I'll be turning in a NOD or sending new evidence if I'm allowed to do a "reconsideration" for IU.
The record shows I was on SSDI before that 2003 date as well as tomes of VA medical records indicating very low GAF scores and being danger to myself and others back then.
Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy to have the $10X,XXX retro, very happy! But I know my medical history warrants IU and I am going to fight for it.
I just hope it doesn't take 6-10 years to get back to VLJ again.
Special thank you to everyone here, you guys are the best.