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I found the information and it isn't very good. This Female Navy Veteran was apparently victamised, not just by her sister who was charged with her care, The VAHC, and the Hospital, I wrongfully listed in Reno, NV. and the Date as well Here is what I could find out.
Joe Hart- News 4
The death of a Carson City Navy veteran is under investigation and detectives say it might have been preventable.
Fifty-five year-old Sandra Von Dracek was allegedly abused by her sister while being cared for at home. Von Dracek was admitted to Carson-Tahoe Medical Center for treatment. The staff at Carson-Tahoe then tried to get Von Dracek admitted to the VA hospital where she'd been treated in the past. The VA rejected Von Dracek, in part, because they said she had been victimized at the hospital in the past.
So the veteran went back home to be cared for by her sister. Two weeks later, on May 15, Sandra Von Dracek was dead. While an official cause of death has yet to be determined, authorities say its a troubling case.
"I would have to say the Veterans Hospital was in the best position to accept Ms. Von Dracek back into the hospital. They had the most knowledge of her condition" said Detective Craig Lowe with the Carson City Sheriff's Department. "I certainly would not accept that a person was a sex assault victim as a viable reason to deny her benefits."
News 4 requested an interview the Chief of Staff at the VA hospital but our request was denied.
While the investigation continues, Sandra Von Dracek's sister Patricia will be in court July 29th on abuse charges.
I'm wondering why, if she was abused by her sister, why the Carson Hospital would discharge her back into that type of invironment, even though the VAHC refused her their services. It seems the Carson Hospital holds some of the responsibility for her evential death as well.
I thought I would never hear of something like this having occured to a Veteran who has been treated in the past and then refused services because she may have had a sexual assault case pending against any person working or being a Veteran seeking services their too.
I just don't know what else to say, it is so upsetting to me to hear about these types of things happening and to have it happen with the VAHC I get my medical services from as well.
Rockhound Rider :D ;) :)
While watching a pre-recorded movie off my TEVO, I caught just a small bit at the end which had some disturbing news. Apparently a Female Veteran, whose daughter was taking care of her, was also abusing her as well, what that intells I do not know, she was first taken to one of the hospitals in Reno, NV and for some reason when it was found out she was a Veteran, they tried to get her transfered to the local VAHC and was refused services. Why I do not know nor do I have anymore information on this matter, I was hoping someone with better researching skills could help me to find more about this so it could be posted.I'm sorry I don't have any information other than it may have happened around the 7th of July, give or take a day or two. Please help me locate this information, so it gets the attention it so rightly deserves and not just a quick notice and then forgottem. Oh yea, I did note that the local channel 4 carried the story.
Rockhound Rider B)
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While watching a pre-recorded movie off my TEVO, I caught just a small bit at the end which had some disturbing news. Apparently a Female Veteran, whose daughter was taking care of her, was also abusing her as well, what that intells I do not know, she was first taken to one of the hospitals in Reno, NV and for some reason when it was found out she was a Veteran, they tried to get her transfered to the local VAHC and was refused services. Why I do not know nor do I have anymore information on this matter, I was hoping someone with better researching skills could help me to find more about this so it could be posted.
I'm sorry I don't have any information other than it may have happened around the 7th of July, give or take a day or two. Please help me locate this information, so it gets the attention it so rightly deserves and not just a quick notice and then forgottem. Oh yea, I did note that the local channel 4 carried the story.
Rockhound Rider ;)
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Wings: As always, your posting of information and their localities on the web, prove once again valuable to me and I am sure many others as well. I've been able to gleen a bit of presidential information that may prove helpfull with my long and arguous CUE claim. The hard part, the part that seems to have me hitting a wall when I try to write up my claim appears to be one step closer in either busting through that wall, or creating the steps I need to make it over. I'll get there, I am sure of it, so keep the information and help comming. You never know when you might post the one thing or item that helps me or others to finally be able to present our claim or claims and to an evential check in the win colum.
Thank you for your dedication and service to this forum and to all the other elders and member who are their to help us, so that we in turn can help ourselves and others as well.
Rockhound ;)
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Scroll down and browse to see CAVC decisions. ~Wings
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Opinions & Orders
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/dailylog.html
NOTE: Bold letter P following the case title denotes precedential opinion or order, N denotes non-precedential. Below are instructions on using these opinions.
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Just a side note: Was your examiner a Dr? If so, were they accreditated or were they an intern, whose write up was reviewed and signed off by a suppervising accreditated Dr.? I found out the Dr. who did my exam, turned out to be an intern and the report that she wrote up was signed off by a suppervising Dr. who I know has never seen me before and who probably hasn't even reviewed my records to compair the examiner's report against.
I think I have been lucky in one respect, my PCP is on my side and has said they will look everything over and will see what she can do to help me out, since she has suggested that she feels the examiner was incorrect in her evaluation and opinion.
I had a similiar ROM experience when I went to the mobility clinic that examined me for a Kart. They had me poping out of my chair a couple of times when my knee locked up and it felt like they were trying to brake it. However, I did get my Kart, but like you, I was pretty sore for awhile and could get around much except inside my house for a few days.
Hope things work out for you as well as they did for me.
Rockhound Rider
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pr: This comes down to personal choice. I personally check on my claim monthly to start with and after about four months, I check on it every couple of weeks and after six, I check it weekly, alternating my checks with the 1-800-827-1000 and IRIS, that way I have some sort of reply on paper, if any problems arrise, I can at least show I have been keeping tabs on what the VA says is going on with my claim. But you must understand that everyone has their own way and time line when checking up on their claim, especially those who have been through the process before. Do remember though, you do need to be pro-active with your claim, checking on its statis is but one aspect of that process. Don't just sit back and wait for that envelope to arrive, keep searching your medical records for anything and everything that can help your claim and if you can afford it, find a specialist on your issues who will be willing to give you an IMO if you find you will need it, usually after you see, if you have one, what a C&P examiner says about your claimed issue or should you find you have to go further than the basis claims process.
Good luck and best wishes for a quick decision in your favor and at what percentage you feel you are intitled to and don't be afraid of asking any question, for I have found, there are no stupid questions when it involves the VA. LoL
Rockhound Rider
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Don't hold your breath, I was told my claim would be decided in june and in may the claim was picked up by the Tiger Team in Cleveland OH and I am in Reno, NV. So don't believe all that you are told by the VA until you have it in writing and in your hands and if approved, the check is in the bank.
Rockhound Rider
I got a call from the Baltimore VARO Rater about my claims and was told It will take 3 months for the rater to finish my claim. I will let you when I hear from the VA. Good luck with your claims my veterans friends. -
Lenora: No problem! Here is what I know and it isn't all that much.
The Tiger Team expedites resolution of VBA claims for veterans over age 70 and claims pending over one year. Plans to implement the Tiger Team began in July 2001, and the team became operational in November 2001. The Tiger Team's goal fluctuates each month, but is never less than the completion of 1,380 claims per month. Through the end of September 2006, the Tiger Team has completed over 80,000 claims. The Tiger Team is responsible for developing needed evidence, preparing rating decisions, and processing award actions.
I was told that my VARO had been swamped with new claims from new Veterans and that my claim was chosen for no other reason than to take some of the burden off my local VARO. Supposedly the people working for the Tiger Team are of top quality and know their stuff. If I don't get a resolution of my claim soon, I may question this information and if they denie my claims and make it necessary for me to ask for a DRO/reconsideration and/or appeal, it will only afirm my belief that they are no different than the rest of the VA claims system, they just know better how to deny a claim than your average regional office rater, making it that much harder to win and forcing me to rebut their decision with one or more costly IMOs.
Time will tell. Sorry, I am usually an optimist, but when it comes to the VA, all optimism goes right out the window.
Rockhound Rider
Please forgive my ignorance but who/what is the "Tiger Team". I've heard of the team through hadit.com, but never before.Thanks,
Lenora
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Ten months and counting. According to what I have been told by 1-800-827-1000 and IRIS. my claim for secondary issues has been sent someplace twice and returned to the rater and after having been told that a decision was scheduled for June, the claim was then taken over by the Tiger Team in Cleveland OH. It has been more than a month now since that time and about a month since the TT has a C&P exam done. My latest inquirey has nothing new to say other than that my claim has been in the process longer than it should have.
There is just no excuse for such a claim to take this amount of time without a decision, good or bad. If it takes only nine months for the main claim the secondary issues are based on, then why should secondary issues take longer, it just doesn't make any since or follow any logic that I can make of it.
Sorry guys for ragging on this, but I have to let of some steam somehow or I am liable to go down to my local VARO and rag on them and get myself into trouble and it wouldn't do any good because my claim is in OH with the TT. %$#*&@^ :)
Rockhound Rider :)
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I'm may be assuming much, but I assume the Rat in the middle of the squirl cage represents the VA and/or VARO. LoL :)
:D yoggie,I know you remember this one.
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Who are these politicians who serve on these Committee's for Veteran's Affairs? Is their a leader and what and who is in the pecking order? What is it that they do, that is supposed to help Veterans? Is their a way in which we, as Veterans, can have our input be noted for the record, such as personal memo's, Letter's, and/or patitions?
When I have the oportunity to go into town, I have had many opportunities where by I have spoken with individuals who are not only Veterans, but are so fed up with the system, that they would prefer to live hand to mouth and on the streets, than deal with either the VA health system and/or the area VARO. Theirs got to be a better and less frustrating way these individuals can either access and/or receive the benefits and services due them.
Most of all, these Veterans I speak of, need one on one service from start to finish, to hand walk them through the system all the while causing them the least amount of mental frustration that the VA system currently causes. These individuals can barely survive, living from day to day as they do. But I find that their biggest problem is with people who say they want to help and then treat them like a number, showing very little impathy or understanding for there individual feelings and problems, which are, even is slightly, different from other Veterans.
These are individuals who have a common bond with other Veterans, but their issues and/or problems are as different as night and day and it is not conceite or an act of self centeredness, when they prefer to be treated as individuals than like a herd of cattle.These are individual people with issues and problems specific to them and them alone and deserve the right to be treated with the same respect and individual care that the civilian population demands and gets for the majority.
I don't put my self in the same classification as these Veterans, but if this one on one representation can be done for this class of Veterans, just think what could be achieved using what they learn to help those who are able to access the system with a lesser digree of frustration and need for individual assistance.
I guess I got a bit side tracked, But I would like to try some sort of patition that Veterans could get behind and support, if I had some way of knowing if it would have any bearing on the way the VA is conducting their business, ie: health care and health claims.
Rockhound Rider
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Wings: As far as I know, but I will double check, the only home health services in my state & county is for seniors and the blind. Any other services, that I have found are based on income and SSDI and VA are considered in the equation and I make too much.
At this point in time, all I can do is write myself a reminder and put it on my schedule to do list, since the week-end is once more upon us.
Rockhound Rider
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Rock, Does your State offer "Home Health Services" for social security disabled? Sounds like you need a housekeeper once a month, unless you can train the kitten! Can you find a babysitter for the kitten when you need to leave the house? BTW, if your PCP has your back, make sure to send her a dark chocolate candy bar ;-) ~Wings
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I think a lot of Disabled Veterans could use the help of an Aid, if not on a regular basis, but to come by to help out, by catching up on the household chores we just can't seem to get a handle on. I would like someone to be able to come and be a catalist, to get things done, so I don't become so overwhelmed or feel that way and then nothing gets done.
I do hope this episode with my neighbor doesn't exaserbate my own agoraphobia. It's been managable thus far, but when I do go out, I find myself putting more and more of a happy face on, when inside, my mind can't wait until I get back to the safety of my home and, dare I say it, my Cat and his new baby Step Sister. LoL :D
Rockhound Rider
Hmmmmm....I could use an aide if my feet continue to get worse. Now I have to often use the go cart at the stor to get around to shop because my feet hurt so bad. I have PN and other issues it seems. Pete, did you get the aide because you are HB?That is whay I miss about being only IU instead of 100% schedular. Maybe I will get the nerve to file for HB since I have agoraphobia according to my last MH rating.
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John999: Take good care of those legs, find a good hand lotion, made for damaged skin and if you can't do it, have a willing, preferably young and pretty gal, if your not married or have a lady friend already, to do it for you. Not being lucky in that department, I've had to manage it on my own.
It has appeared to do some good by lessoning the pain, I have to deal with, it has also reduced the number of times I get those periods of what I call, flair ups, which leaves my legs, at times feeling like they are on fire and at other times like tiny crawling things just under the skin have these tiny tunnels they are crawling along, drives me crazy and of course my PCP has no remedy for those times but to try and do something to take my mind away from it.
My brother has PN but it is more due to the results of tissue and muscle damage from a grenade in VN. He gets out and walks it off, even through the pain at times, but he has had his problems a lot longer than I have and had better follow up after his injury.
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It appears my PCP is on my side as to what the C&P Examiner should have said and when I ask if she was willing to give an opposing statement with supporting documentation, she told me to give her a few days to research the matter and shw would do what she could do. Of course now I will have to wait a bit of time before I find out how much in my corner she really is, but I am feeling better than I was after reading the C&P examiners opinion.
The only thing that has me a bit upset, is that my new room mate, the near 10 week old kitten, she put up such a fuss while I went in to the VAHA for my Dr's appointmen, that someone thought someone in the house was calling for help and I guess the sheriff did a welfare check on me, Now because of the condition in which they found my house, along with one of my nosey neighbors, I may be getting a call from one of the agencies in town, me being disabled and all and unable to do all the cleaning chorse inside and outside my home, I may be stuck with the cost of a clean up, I have no funds to pay for, but may be required to do so, for health and safety reasons.
As much as I would like a spotlessly clean house and yard, I don't have the means or the extra containers to haul everything aware at one time and hince I am barely keep up with some of it.
With the economy the way it is, the programs that I would otherwise be elligible for, these programs have been shut down till better times.
Anyway, at least I got my pain meds increased due to my new bad numb thigh and some muscle relaxant meds, I hope they will work, I can't do much of anything untl I get relief from the pain in my lower back and numbness in my left thigh.
All in all, it was a fairly productive day I think.
Rockhound Rider
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While in the service, in 1972, I injured my lower back and was diagnosed with a back strain. It is a part of my AXIS III diagnoses. I am currently suffering once again with lower back pain and I am almost sure that Xrays will show some DDD/osteoarthritis and I am also suffering some numbness in my left front and to the outside part of my thigh. It has been constant for about three to four weeks while I wait for my appointment, I scheduled for it, rather than going to ergent care and not wanting to wait for my next regular appointment, in about three months.
Given that it has been such a long time between when I first injured my lower back and my current symptoms, is it conceivable that should new findings that show an increase in the DDD/osteoarthritis in my lower back, be as a result of my injury during service?
I'm not looking to get anything I am not intitled to, but the way the VA has treated me on my other claims for the past 35 plus years, I'm inclined to seek SC if my lower back does show an increase in severity, regardless of not have much problems in between the episodes.
I would like any thoughts and/or opinions on this please.
Rockhound Rider <_<
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I don't understand why you have to even be a part of a pain management program. I receive Oxycodone for my pain, which is a class of narcotics controlled by federal regulation for opiates
The only thing I have to do is call ahead to have a new perscription written each month and if mailed out, I have to sign in person to get them, they usually come by fedX when mailed out. Which reminds me that I need to call, so I can get them renewed on my next visit.
Again, I hope the best for an acceptable conclusion to this problem.
Rockhound Rider <_<
Carlie..thanks so muchRock...I understand you comments, and I agree with the VA's initial actions, however where our mutual agreement deviates is that according to my pain management agreement, I am supposed to be given 24 hours notice when I am selected for a "random" drug screen. Had I been notified, even the morning of the labwaor, this would not be a issue. The manner in which this transpired was not "random" at all, but was in fact "secret." Now that I know this provider intends to give secret drug screens, rather than random ones, I don't even have a problem with that. I'll simply hold my water any time that I have labs scheduled. And let's not even get me started on the illegality of this pain management agreement. "Sign this agreement, and submit to us or you won't get any pain medication." Anybody ever heard the term coercsion?
I do not intend to roll over on this one. I would prefer to suffer in pain and take motrin bought at Wal-Mart, rather than let them win. This is me beyond pissed off and ready for a fight.
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Having worked at a Drug rehab center, as an intake officer, while a hospital corpsman in the Navy, I had many times, where during, not only for routine, but for unscheduled urine tests, we had patients who would give one reason or another why they could not give a urine sample at that particular time. Without trying to sound like the devil's advocate here, I have to side with the VAMC on this. If they accept your excuse, then they would be required to accept all the many other excuses they can not give a urine sample at that time.
It's not a reflection on you, but the many, and I am sure their are many, not necessarily in a pain management agreement like you, the VAMC has to treat everyone the same and follow, I'm sure, some type of guidelines they must follow, which in time would get around to recertifying you and reinstate you on the pain management program.
Appealing thier decision is the correct step to take, but I must tell you, that the excuse you give for not being able to give a urine sample and not being able to stay around to give it, shows how little you understand the need and your responsibility for the pain management program. It is not only their for the good of everyone concerned, it is also their to make sure that you do not become so dependent on these types of pain medication, that you become a statistic, one of so many who do become dependent on these drugs and will do or say just about anything in order to keep them coming.
You have to decide which comes first, your health or your statis as a friend, relative, etc. etc. etc. If these people have one iota of compasion, they will forgive you a couple of hours while you take care of your health and obligations you have made with those who are their to help assure you of continued good health.
I'm hoping your appeal goes well and that any problems associated with how thing unfolded are worked out to each sides approval.
Rockhound Rider <_<
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If I am wrong on this point, Please! someone correct me. If the VA makes the error in which you are overpaid, unless they can prove that you were aware of the overpayment and/or prove fraud perpitrated by you, you shouldn't have to be made to pay back the money, at least not without them going through the proper process first. That means they must give you time to appeal their action before any monies are actually taken from your award, whether it be from any accrued benefits or future benefits.
If I am correct and the VA does wrongfully take money away from you and you loose anything of value, such as a car, home etc. Then you might have a civil suit for damages, not only for the lost revinue, but for items of value lost, and/or for pain and suffering too.
I'm no Attorney, so don't take this as gossiple, but if I were you, I would certainly look into whether or not you do have an actionable case against the VA should the above occure.
If I am incorrect in my belief, I appoligize in advance.
Rockhound Rider <_<
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Pete53: Have you checked your meds lately? LOL :D As I read 4myboys, he implies he has a DAV VSO who appears to be useless in explaining why he received such a letter, and replying with more useless information and that the VA"s right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. It also appears that the VA is trying to pull one of it's fast ones by trying to claim he owes them, when in fact he doesn't.
This is why the VA needs to be reworked and penalties put in place for those that make such erronious mistakes and cause, who knows how much pain and suffering by Veteran's because of them.
My current claim in the works is just another type of useless information the VA tells Veteran's when my VSO was told that my claim had been returned to the Rater and that a decision was scheduled to be made in June, then only to receive a letter from Cleveland, OH from the Tiger Team, that they were taking over my claim, since it had been in the process for over a year, when in fact, it was only in the works at the time, 8 months, with June making it the 9 months.
Plus I was told I would not need a C&P since I had one within the past year and the Tiger Team changed that and scheduled one, on my birthday no less. HA LOL
If I wasn't already on meds, the way the VA works, would certainly have me on them in order to keep my sanity. <_<
Rockhound Rider B)
p.s. by all means keep calling the 1-800 number to check on your claims progress, but also e-mail IRIS so that you will get your answer on paper and above all, don't take any one of them as gossiple, only the final, official letter will answer your questions, well hopefully anyway.
Welcome to Hadit. Do you have a Service Officer. If you do ask them to find out what in Hades is going onGood Luck
This is not something you can wait for you need to also call 800 827 1000 and see if they have anything and also email IRIS Request
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My previous PCP was pretty much forced out from her job when she became the last medical Dr. on the team for Veterans who also had psychiatric problems as well as medical problems. Her work load became so intolerable that she she had no choice but to resign and seek employment else where, which she had no problem in doing so, she was that good and as well respected by patients, peers and friends. It was a shame to loose such a professional like her, but I guess that is how the VA works in keeping the work costs down, by forcing out the experienced people so they can hire others at a lower cost or force others to take on a more burdensome patient load. It's too bad she couldn't have suid the VA, it was a shame to have lost her is such a manner. It's taken me some time now to begin trusting my new PCP not to mention the continuity of her knowing and understanding my particular situation and problems.
The Four deserve the whole award, but I see how the VA is excaping even that.
Rockhound Rider <_<
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Also if the scar is superficial consider these.
7803 Scars, superficial, unstable.............................. 10
Note (1): An unstable scar is one where, for any reason,
there is frequent loss of covering of skin over the scar.
Note (2): A superficial scar is one not associated with
underlying soft tissue damage.
7804 Scars, superficial, painful on examination................ 10
Note (1): A superficial scar is one not associated with
underlying soft tissue damage.
Note (2): In this case, a 10-percent evaluation will be
assigned for a scar on the tip of a finger or toe even
though amputation of the part would not warrant a
compensable evaluation.
Rockhound Rider <_<
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Before I say what I have to say, I want to let everyone know, that I am not in any way shape or form coming out against combat related TBI research. treatment, and/or claims being awared for them.
My beef is with the non combatants who are in a supporting role, outside of the combat area or arena, whether it be stateside or in another foreign country or while at sea, not being treated the same for their TBI injury's, the same as those who suffered their's while under hostile fire in a war zone like Afganistan and Irac. I'm also sure that VN Vets feel almost as much left out of the equation as non combatants like myself do.
Even though I was able to get some coroboration for my TBI being the cause of some of my problems and more likely than not the cause of my PD diagnosis that denied me SC plus the associated benefits over the past 35 plus yrs. I am still being denied the same medical evaluation and testiing that those that are combat related are just now being redily given to assess not only any current and/or possibly lasting effects, but to any rehabilitation resources that may make my quality of life, if even a little bit better than it is now, which by far could use more than a little bit of help in that department, even as I type my displeasure of the whole unequal process.
I wonder what would have happened to my brother, who spent two tours in VN and then while stationed stateside was hit head on by a drunk driver, while on service santioned R&R, if only he had incurred just a TBI, instead of the extensive injuries he did. If he was treated the way other non-combatants are being treated today, who had similiar TBI's, then he probably would still be fighting for his rightful benefits. Not that I am glad that he was as seriously injured as he was, I'm glad it was more than enough so that they could not mess around with him, being that any number of his injuries would have classified him as 100% and TDIU.
TBI's it appears is one of those areas, that the VA is using to pit one era and/or class of Veterans against another, which appears to be but only one of the many ways they use to keep all Veteran from organizing into one voice that would then have the means if not the muscles to get things done to better the system in helping Veterans injured or not, get what is rightfully due them according to all that was given and/or promised to them.
Sorry to be in such a sour mood, I have been stressed all day, because it was my new kitten's day to get her first set of blood tests and vaccination shots and the stress has found it's relief in this post for better or for worse. LoL
Tammy is the kittens' name and she is doing fine, which I can't say the same about me. You'd think a big guy my age would be tough enough to weather the possibilities of my kitten reacting badly to her vaccinations. If you had thought I should have, you would have been wrong. I guess it is true about our pets being just as valued a member of the family as if they were our own children. I'm haven't been married for some time now and I have no children, so I guess I pamper and spoil my Cat and Kitten just as if they were children or more likely like grandchildren, given my age and theirs'.
So I guess I have said enough, so if anyone wishes to comment or relate their experiences with how the VA has treated their TBI, combat related or not, I for one would like to hear what you have to say.
Rockhound Rider :D
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As I try to reply to this post from Hoppy, my new house member is getting in the way, so if my typing seems a bit irratict, blame it on a fisty 9 week old kitten named Tammy. LoL I hope to have some pictures to post as soon as I can find a white bed sheet for a contrasting back drop to her brown and gray tabby markings.
My own research has come up with a number of different types of Rhinitis and it seems that any number of these types can either be caused by truama or by a deviated septom and even if their is an allergic response type Rhinitis, it doesn't exclude any of the others from occuring at or with the the allergic Rhinitis. So as I said before, their is no definitive way to differentiate which is caused by the trauma, the deviated septum, or from an allergy.
The C&P Examiner should have found it as likely as not instead of less than likely as. The evidence for or against SC should have been shown to be equal and their fore SC'ble.
Rockhound Rider :D
Rock,I remember from research I did years ago that vasomotor rhinitis was caused by a pre-frontal head trauma that injured the nerve conduction to the nose. If you keep searching I am sure you can find more on this. If you had no pre injury symptoms a doctor would need to address the likely hood that your symptoms are related to an injury. How frequently do people without any history of head injury develop this condition mid life? It sounds like allergic rhinitis has not been identified in your case.
http://www.brookwoodent.com/vasomotor.html
The cause of vasomotor rhinitis remains obscure despite its recognition for many years. We do know that the lining inside an affected nose overreacts to anything that irritates it. Blood vessels enlarge (vasodilate) and this results in chronic swelling and nasal obstruction. There is some evidence that individuals with vasomotor rhinitis have an imbalance in the nerve supply to the nose which leads to the dilated blood vessels.
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I did a quick search on the causes of Allergic and Non-Allergic Rhinitis. Of the three groups mentioned, two listed structural abnormalities which included deviated septum.
Since 1998, three expert panels1-3 have published reviews of rhinitis. The first report1 was created by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI) as a complete guideline for the diagnosis and management of rhinitis.
The second report,3 coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), focuses on allergic rhinitis and asthma but includes an extensive section on the differential diagnosis of rhinitis. This report is intended to be a complete evidence-based guideline on the diagnosis and management of allergic rhinitis and asthma.
Without a diffinitive test for allergens, it is impossible to differentiate between Allergic Rhinitis and Non Allergic Rhinitis and they both show causes that can be caused by structural abnormalities such as a deviated septum.
Since there was no history of chronic rhinitis or sinusitis prior to and during my time in service and that the problems associated with Chronic Rhinitis and Sinusitis began after the nasal fracture and deviated septum, the evidence appears to be in equipose or 50/50, the examiner should have have deferred it as at least as likely as not instead of less likely than.
So I guess it's to be a battle of a favorable ENT specialist IMO, against the opinion of the C&P Examining Dr.
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Is Ths Wishful Thinking?
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It sounds to me, since you say your claim is at the BVA, that maybe the BVA is in the process of having your claim remanded for a more up to date C&P exam. I don't think the person on the 1-800 number could tell you that, so not only would I keep checking with them, I would make sure I checked my mail as well, Since your more likely to get a letter scheduling your C&P exam than you are a phone call. JMHO Then again, I'm wrong more of the time than I am right these days.
I blame that on the VA as well, with the combined effects of pain, psych, meds mostly, but who can say what effects the combined total of all my meds are having on my congnitive thinking and rationalization.
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