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Hoping all have a safe and enjoyable Veteran's Day. Stay safe, be thankful, and keep fighting. Never Give up.
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Reading and re reading my BVA decision and it's what should I say and call it, perplexing at the least. It seems that while private medical records and private evaluations, in my claims, while those records paint a higher disability picture, the only evaluations that are used for the rating of disabilities is the VA bogus C&P.s What happened to evaluation of ALL evidence, the higher of two or more evaluations, SMC S and so forth. Irritated and disappointed to say the least. Partial grant, partial denial, partial remand. On the damn hamster wheel again. WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!!!!
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Irritated today as now I have a further wait for the BVA. As it appears now, my appeals have been remanded by the BVA. Although I am certain, that I sent in a Waiver of Review when my claims were sent to the Board. I need specifics on what was reason for the remand, if anything was granted or denied and so forth. So irritated. I do however, take some comforts, in knowing that legally the Regional office goofed somehow, but alas, until I get specifics, back on the hamster wheel for me it seems. RRRrrr.
In other news at least the weather is great here in Portland, and I have a nice size 16ft deep pool to go swimming in.
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Love the trees and atmosphere in Oregon. Been experimenting with alternative medicines and it is not easy to find the right cocktails to get pain relief and still be functional. Slowly learning though different strains and intake methods. Still trying to get recon and situational awareness out here though. Short term memory is kicking my butt, but heh GPS and repetition, slowly getting there.
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Change of scenery for me, moved to Oregon and taking in the beautiful landscapes.
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Heh Buck sorry for the time in between. It has taken me a while to adjust and that is just to say that I can take the wife to work and barely with errors get home.
The scenery is so beautiful, I love the colors, trees, and although this is raining season here the weather. It so beats Oklahoma. Other than family and familiarity I won't miss OK much.
Man I feel so how should we say "fish out of water " feeling. Definitely a change of pace.
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Happy Belated New Years to everyone. Sorry a bit behind the curve these days. Have a prosperous new year and may your VA battles be swift and victorious.
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I haven't been too great mentally but hanging in there otherwise. Things with my claims should be good although I believe I might have screwed the pooch on one the timelines for my last Form 9. The VA took over a year to provide me a copy of the last decision a year a go. I did send in the NOD and I did send in a Form 9 however. I didn't know the date of the last effective decision so I wrote one up stating that I was contesting the last decision.
It boils down to the effective date of my neck claim. It should have the same effective date as my back since SMR's and the LOD for the back and the LOD for neck were all in my records in the hands of the VA at the time of my initial claim. Then the rest of my contentions I've rested on the medical evidence and independent medical opinions.
It looks like I may have 3 separate dockets dates but I am still not for certain on that since I can't get a complete answer from the VA via IRIS or helpline.
I've received the 90 day letter from the BVA for evidence before the Board issues a decision in my appeal. So everything is moving smoothly to my knowledge.
Keeping this all together is so taxing. DOL, Social Security , OPM retirement, and Veterans benefits. In all these years, and mind you, I haven't been at it as much as most on here on had it, with my conditions, specifically the mental, which relies heavily on for recollection of events in my claims, I'm screwed. Most days I can't tell you what day of the week it is, or what I had for breakfast that day, if I remember at all, it is only after some big hints and recaps from my family that I can piece together whats going on. Which lends to even more problems for an already paranoid person, it sucks. But I try to get by, try being the operative word.
In any case didn't mean to write a novel. I was just excited to hear from folks I consider friends on here.How have things been on your front?
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