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  2. Dear Berta: Thank you and all for this site; I have often looked at your postings, but have been terrified to post because of my fear of the VA and all things VA. My husband is a Vietnam Veteran who was stationed in Danang. He also was sationed at Fort Leonard Wood Basic Training Camp and developed a very serious lung condition/injury which the VA has denied since 2007. At that time, a veteran's service officer had us sign up for respiratory condition due to herbicide exposure because the military did not initially give us his medical records, and he did serve in Vietnam and was exposed to AO. There was a epidemic at Fort Leonard Wood at the timeframe he was there during 1970-1971. It was a meninococcal meningitis (sp unknown) epidemic and though he requested help from all to find out what he had, they have never acknowledged the epidemic. His records show ARD LD:yes. His treating doctor back then has written he had a much more serious condition and was hospitalized the records show twice. He received batches of vaccines and all kinds of vaccines for everything while he was very sick. He stated there were hundreds of soldiers in the hospital. His records show admit date and no discharge date on las admisssion. The captain who admitted him states in the records, there are many missing records and no discharge date. Lab testing results cover over the results. Originally we were told there were no in-patient records after years of requesting records, only to find out they used x-ray against him in denails. In his original exam in 2007, the VA put in his records no need to exam, though he suffered with respiratory problems. Todate, he has never been give a CT scan and his records showed he had a lung nodule which eventually gew and caused him cancer. He is service connected currently for about 9 months for lung cancer, not they want to take away. After some time in 2009, he aslo developed CAD, along with lung disease. It was discovered during the Nehmer investigation about his denied heart condtiion and awarded under Nehmer. They reduced his disability rating to 0; now to 10% from 60% originally. He has not materailly improved and had to retire on disability due to lung and heart problems, but also he was a mechanic and had other physical problems as well. The reason of VA's denial originally was that his lung injury was acute. On some of the evidence he was awarded for iscemic heart disease claim under Nehmer, the VA states they have not addressed his claim for respiratory yet because they are under appeal. In the same records bronchiectasis was also shown on CT scan which is a permanent and chronic disease. Should that have also been included as Nehmer claim (original claim denied in 2007 was for respiratory condition per VSO due to herbicide exposure. He developed cancer and had surgery on right lung in 2017. Now they are trying to reduce even though his left lung which they are not sure if it is active or not because it is in location where they cannot biopsy. One does get tired of the fight. My husband never received any exam for heart or lungs before the VA's denials of his claims. I found on the internet that there was a Congressional Report for the epidemic just this week for 1970-1971. We have hearing next week with about `0 days notice and no rep help due to this location does not have any right now, although we think we will try to defend ourselves we guess. His pulmonary function test after the resection of right lung is 54% for DCLO, ct scan shows the left lung nodules, Thorasic doctor wrote he cannot return to job as mechanic, but he has been retired for other heart/lung related issues as descrined above. Can you give any advice to a very tired wife who is exhaused from this fight and has volunteered for our military heroes for years? Sorry if this is put in the wrong place, I am not at all technical savvy. Your help, as well as, the help of others who might have info on Fort Leonard Wood or the Nehmer questions, would be sincerely apprecoated.
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