disasta

Interesting they told you that. My claim had a docket # of June 2009 and I received a decision in the mail on the 1st of August. Good luck, hopefully it is resolved and you receive a favorable decision soon.

Thanks everyone. Sandman my docket # is 09-19 272 and it had been there since June of 2009

Carlie, Thanks I figure it would go something like that. I have had a rating increase then surgery to fix the reflux so I assume that will be dropped tp 0% after that then I just get to wait for one more claim and hopefully be done with it all. vetinpa: My RO is in Boston, MA

So i have been fighting the va to be service connected for my acid relux and today i received the brown envelope granting it but with no rating. The va had denied it time and time again even after submitting a IMO based on their doctor believing it was caused by chronic bronchitis. I had already been granted service connected asthma so they would only take my request for rating on chronic bronchitis as a request for increase. I assume I will have to wait for the regional office to give me a rating percentage before I see any of my award. I am curious to whether I will receive it for the entire time or they will rate me 0% because I had a nissen fundoplication to correct my reflux back at the beginning of 2010. It seems like it has been so long to just have them finally agree that it was incurred in service.

My claim has a June 2009 docket # and just went before the law judge on June 28th of . It went to "with VLJ" in january but quickly went back to "with VSO." My claim is now "pending dispatch" since July 27th and was only for an appeal on GERD. hope this helps.

The schools veterans office is the one who actually responded to me and told me how the va determined 1/4 1/2 3/4 and full time. I am just unsure if they split the sustenance payment up so I would be full time for part of the way or if they would just average it out and make it 3/4 time for the entire semester.

Hello All. Ok I have a question. My current semester runs from 9/1 to 12/23 and I am taking 4 classes, 1 is an accelerated 10 week course, 2 are normal 3 credit hour classes and one is a lab worth 1 credit hour. From what my school has emailed me the number of credit hours multiplied by 18 (a constant) divided by the number of weeks in the term equals the number of ECH's. Generally, accelerated online courses are considered 10 week courses: (3x18/10 = 5.4 ECH + 7 credits from your full length courses(2 3 credit courses and a 1 credit hour course) = 12.1. Now 12 credit hours is full time so will I be paid the full time rate for the 10 weeks that I will be a 'full time' student and then paid 1/2 time for the last portion where I am a 1/2 time student or do they just average it out? Thanks for the help.

i received mine in my usaa account yesterday,

According to code 6602 I would think so. My FEV-1 is 52% on average and I have been rated 60% for it. Best of luck. 6602 Asthma, bronchial: FEV-1 less than 40-percent predicted, or; FEV-1/FVC less than 40 percent, or; more than one attack per week with episodes of respiratory failure, or; requires daily use of systemic (oral or parenteral) high dose corticosteroids or immuno-suppressive medications 100 FEV-1 of 40- to 55-percent predicted, or; FEV-1/FVC of 40 to 55 percent, or; at least monthly visits to a physician for required care of exacerbations, or; intermittent (at least three per year) courses of systemic (oral or parenteral) corticosteroids 60 FEV-1 of 56- to 70-percent predicted, or; FEV-1/FVC of 56 to 70 percent, or; daily inhalational or oral bronchodilator therapy, or; inhalational anti-inflammatory medication 30 FEV-1 of 71- to 80-percent predicted, or; FEV-1/FVC of 71 to 80 percent, or; intermittent inhalational or oral bronchodilator therapy 10 Note: In the absence of clinical findings of asthma at time of examination, a verified history of asthmatic attacks must be of record. 6603 Emphysema, pulmonary: FEV-1 less than 40 percent of predicted value, or; the ratio of Forced Expiratory Volume in one second to Forced Vital Capacity (FEV-1/FVC) less than 40 percent, or; Diffusion Capacity of the Lung for Carbon Monoxide by the Single Breath Method (DLCO (SB)) less than 40-percent predicted, or; maximum exercise capacity less than 15 ml/kg/min oxygen consumption (with cardiac or respiratory limitation), or; cor pulmonale (right heart failure), or; right ventricular hypertrophy, or; pulmonary hypertension (shown by Echo or cardiac catheterization), or; episode(s) of acute respiratory failure, or; requires outpatient oxygen therapy. 100 FEV-1 of 40- to 55-percent predicted, or; FEV-1/FVC of 40 to 55 percent, or; DLCO (SB) of 40- to 55-percent predicted, or; maximum oxygen consumption of 15 to 20 ml/kg/min (with cardiorespiratory limit) 60 FEV-1 of 56- to 70-percent predicted, or; FEV-1/FVC of 56 to 70 percent, or; DLCO (SB) 56- to 65-percent predicted 30 FEV-1 of 71- to 80-percent predicted, or; FEV-1/FVC of 71 to 80 percent, or; DLCO (SB) 66- to 80-percent predicted 10

from looking at the short part and without context, it could mean rule out. Were they doing testing to determine whether you suffered from these or were these already diagnosed?

ya i figured that I could claim or sue I just wasnt sure how to go about it. I am not very worried about the timeline, I was just discharged today. I had faith in the surgeon, everything she did was very cautious and very calculated. she stated she did not think the spleen would be where it was, but I will have to wait to get the medical records for the surgery and see. The surgery was an open nissen fundplication complicated by a splenectomy due to the spleen being severed.

the va did the surgery.

Hi Everyone, I just underwent surgery and things just seemed to go fairly badly. The past to my story is here. http://www.hadit.com/forums/index.php?show...&hl=disasta but I am curious to what to do now or what options I have. I went in for surgery for my laproscopic nissan fundoplication(basically take the top part of the stomach and wrap it across the esophagus and recreate the seal to keep reflux down). There was a small risk that the surgery could have needed to be an open due to the fact one out of a dozeen tests I had showed a possible shortened esophagus. Approrpiate measures were taken in case that was needed. After 8hours of time in the operating room I was transferreed to the recovery room. Apparently during the surgery they attempted twice to do the laprpsopic way and on the second time they severed the spleen. Unfounded they were unable to stop the bleeding and it was removed. The rest of the surgery seemed to go ahead as planned. But now what? I lost and organ that no one had even said it was a possibility? Can I put a claim in on top of my Reflux Claim or what? Thanks for the replies.