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Ruby, I got a PDA/GPS unit through the speech therepy unit, all it took was a referal from my Primary Care Doc. Nothing to do with ILS
Wow, Vietnam Tanker,.. I totally cannot figure out what a PDA or an ILS is????? I think the GPS is "global positioning system".??? I don't know what it all means, however it does sound cool.
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Yep, they probably wood, heh, heh. B)
Good one, tagandbag. Thanks for the laugh.
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I wonder if they would ante up for a new tablesaw, I like that portable one that craftsman makes around 500-600. I think if I tell them I dont have any dressers to put my clothes in, I could make some. B)
Hi Tagandbag,... The VA would probably cut your disability for having the ability to make your own dressers. Yeah, I enjoy woodworking too. The table saw sounds like a good one.
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In closing, let me say that the family veteran I represented who died from tonsillar cancer due to his dioxin exposure in Nam was my brother-in-law, and his surviving spouse and kids are my sister and nieces.
Please accept my condolences and my most positive best wishes to your sister and family. They are most fortunate to have you in their lives. I am always saddened to hear of a fellow veteran's death. Although I did not know him, he is a brother. He was a part of our Tontine.
Your perseverance is admirable. Your accomplishment and hard work is an inspiration, and will be an aid to other vets in the future. Best wishes and welcome aboard.
Bob
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The plots thickens.
Now all of a sudden, the Dayton VAMC has hired a women's MST PTSD coordinator and she is "awaiting her credentials" before she begins work.
Yesterday, I called the Dayton vet center and checked out the programs for women vets in your area. I hope the new MST PTSD coordinator works out for you. If not, can you apply for fee-basis, and find a private Doctor to help you, purple?? I wish you well.
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I`m one of those vets.
Cavman
Hi Cavman,...where's the lawyer, when you need em'??? lol
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TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRSPART 4--SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES
Subpart B--Disability Ratings
4.129 Mental disorders due to traumatic stress.
General Rating Formula for Mental Disorders:
Total occupational and social impairment, due to such symptoms as: gross impairment in thought processes or communication; persistent delusions or hallucinations; grossly inappropriate behavior; persistent danger of hurting self or others; intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living (including maintenance of minimal personal hygiene); disorientation to time or place; memory loss for names of close relatives, own occupation, or own name............. 100%
Occupational and social impairment, with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, due to such symptoms as: suicidal ideation; obsessional rituals which interfere with routine activities; speech intermittently illogical, obscure, or irrelevant; near-continuous panic or depression affecting the ability to function independently, appropriately and effectively; impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked irritability with periods of violence); spatial disorientation; neglect of personal appearance and hygiene; difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances (including work or a worklike setting); inability to establish and maintain effective relationships............... 70%
Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short- and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships....... 50%
Occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine behavior, self-care, and conversation normal), due to such symptoms as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or less often), chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss (such as forgetting names, directions, recent events)...................................... 30%
Occupational and social impairment due to mild or transient symptoms which decrease work efficiency and ability to perform occupational tasks only during periods of significant stress, or; symptoms controlled by continuous medication............ 10% A mental condition has been formally diagnosed, but symptoms are not severe enough either to interfere with occupational and social functioning or to require continuous medication................... 0%
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I read on another site about programs to get PDA's, Golf CLubs etc for quality of life. Does anyone know anything about these type of programs.
Thanks
Hi ruby,...What's a PDA?
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... I got my decision for disabilities last Sep/08, ... Anyway is this enough evidence to submit a NOD, and if so should I also include in the NOD that I believe that I should be entitled to TDIU P/T?
Did you file the NOD yet???
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Hi,
My post just got lost so here I go again...........
YELLOOW Team
Hi yelloonumber5 . What was the outcome? How are you doing?
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Thanks, Pete! It is the full package! I'm going back to college! Armstrong-Atlantic, HERE I COME! (Hopefully!) I'm sending out the paperwork for Champva on Monday. I have no insurance right now, so it will be nice to be able to just see a doctor! I'm looking forward to it!
Well, let's celebrate your Birthday all month, SouthernBelle. You deserve it this year!!! I was glad to see you got to spend a little time for yourself. You saved your family, and brightened up the day for many of us. Don't you just love a winner... May you have many more.
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Hi All:
I want to share my experience with this type of claim with other vets who have such a claim. If someone out there can direct me as to how I can access the thread regarding tonsil cancer and AO so that I can post there, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
Well, Lawyer4Vet , just like Pompeii, the original Agent Orange topic I resurrected for you, has now sunk two or three layers down. I see Cavman has joined us, excellent. This is the best place for your AO topic anyway. It originated in a "General VA Claims....topic section. Please tell us more about your win.
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Hi All:
I want to share my experience with this type of claim with other vets who have such a claim. If someone out there can direct me as to how I can access the thread regarding tonsil cancer and AO so that I can post there, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
Congratulations on the win, Lawyer4Vet .
Here is the Agent Orange Tonsil Cancer thread you asked about. I'll try to pull it up to the top for you. Originated Dec. 30, 2008, you will find it here:
hadit.com Veterans Forum > General VA Claims Questions & Information > (VA Claims Research) Veterans Affairs Claims and Benefits Research How did you win the claim? When did you win it? What kind of tonsil cancer did the vet have? I have an Agent Orange claim for a metastatic squamous cell carcinoma involving the tonsil. I'm just waiting for the denial letter, so I can file a NOD.
Cmdr. Bob
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Congratulations. here is the thread you were looking for Lawyer4Vet . How did you win the claim? When did you win it? What kind of tonsil cancer did the vet have? I have an Agent Orange claim for a metastatic squamous cell carcinoma involving the tonsil.
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Illinois Veteran who want to get involved....
Good luck, and best wishes on a sucessful outcome in your home state.
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we all are entitled to our beliefs. Its a shame most only think of themselves, when they claim they are here for others. I guess it helps them with their problems though.
Old Texas saying: " There is more than one way to get to a train station." In winning your claim, you can do it yourself, let the VA do it for you, or get a NSO or VSO or agent. However, the most important component, is for the veteran to be proactive. Use all the tools and teammates you can muster, to help you prove your claim. Websites like Hadit, and old soldiers included.
I thank you Scout2/2ACR, for your efforts and your service to your fellow veterans. However, to succeed, in the end, the vets are going to have to follow through for themselves. Some of us can help and some of us can give moral support. We all can contribute our two cents.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I want to squeel! Okay, so we got the award letter today. The increase is from 50% to 100% P & T, no further exams scheduled.
That's wonderful news, SouthernBelle . does the P&T qualify you for Chapter 35 benefits right away? I can't remember the rules at the moment. I wanted to send you and your family my well wishes right away. How is the washing machine doing?
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Went To exam Yesterday, The Doctor Couldnt of Been Better,...
Best wishes for a successful response from the VA, peb1.
Please keep us posted on the outcome.
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I just want to be healed nothing more nothing less. i just want to be who i was...
Modern medicine is progressing in leaps and bounds. Maybe someday the medical community will be able to truly help many of us. I'm betting the farm on it. Good luck.
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"during the period beginning on September 1, 1967, and ending on August 31, 1971;" Doesn't this expand the time frame for U.S. military serving in Korea?
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The Vietnam vets in the U.S., were sold out, bamboozled, bought off, for $180 million.
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
SEPT 23,08 FILED CLAIM WITH ASSIST OF PVA VSO.
CLAIM FILED AT MUSKOGEE OK. VARO
OCT, 27 LETTER GRANTING 30% INTERIM FOR ALS. C+P EXAM SCHEDULED FOR NOV 7.
NOV,7 C+P LASTED 30 MINUTES.
NOV,21 VSO CALLED. I HAVE BEEN GRANTED 100% P+T WITH SMC R2
Sorry to hear about your disability. Glad the rating went well for you.
I'm optimistic that some day all claims will be resolved in 60 days or less.
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Can anyone tell me what this means in the simplest form please.This came in the mail today.
Diagnostic Code Criteria
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5010 Arthritis, due to trauma, substantiated by X-ray findings
Rate as arthritis, degenerative.
Degenerative arthritis established by X-ray findings will be rated on the basis of limitation of motion under the appropriate diagnostic codes for the specific joint or joints involved (DC 5200 etc.). When however, the limitation of motion of the specific joint or joints involved is noncompensable under the appropriate diagnostic codes, a rating of 10 pet is for application for each such major joint or group of minor joints affected by limitation of motion, to be combined, not added under diagnostic code 5003. Limitation of motion must be objectively confirmed by findings such as swelling, muscle spasm, or satisfactory evidence of painful motion. In the absence of limitation of motion, rate as below:
With X-ray evidence of involvement of 2 or more major joints or 2 or more minor joint groups, with occasional incapacitating exacerbations...20
With X-ray evidence of involvement of 2 or more major joints or 2 or more minor joint groups...10
Note (1): The 20 pet and 10 pet ratings based on X-ray findings, above, will not be combined with ratings based on limitation of motion.
Note(2): The 20 pet and 10 pet ratings based on X-ray findings, above, will not be utilized in rating conditions listed under diagnostic code 5013 to 5024, inclusive.
§4.45 The joints
As regards the joints the factors of disability reside in reductions of their normal excursion of movements in different planes. Inquiry will be directed to these considerations:
(a) Less movement than normal (due to ankylosis, limitation or blocking, adhesions, tendon-tie-up, contracted scars, etc.).
( B) More movement than normal (from flail joint, resections, nonunion of fracture, relaxation of ligaments, etc.).
© Weakened movement (due to muscle injury, disease or injury of peripheral nerves, divided or lengthened tendons, etc.).
(d) Excess fatigability.
(e) Incoordination, impaired ability to execute skilled movements smoothly.
(f) Pain on movement, swelling, deformity or atrophy of disuse. Instability of station, disturbance of locomotion, interference with sitting, standing and weight-bearing are related considerations. For the purpose of rating disability from arthritis, the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle are considered major joints; multiple involvements of the interphalangeal, metacarpal and carpal joints of the upper extremities, the interphalangeal, metatarsal and tarsal joints of the lower extremities, the cervical vertebrae, the dorsal vertebrae, and the lumbar vertebrae, are considered groups of minor joints, ratable on a parity with major joints. The lumbosacral articulation and both sacroiliac joints are considered to be a group of minor joints, ratable on disturbance of lumbar spine functions.
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5010 Arthritis, due to trauma, substantiated by X-ray findings
Rate as arthritis, degenerative.
Degenerative arthritis established by X-ray findings will be rated on the basis of limitation of motion under the appropriate diagnostic codes for the specific joint or joints involved (DC 5200 etc.). When however, the limitation of motion of the specific joint or joints involved is noncompensable under the appropriate diagnostic codes, a rating of 10 pet is for application for each such major joint or group of minor joints affected by limitation of motion, to be combined, not added under diagnostic code 5003. Limitation of motion must be objectively confirmed by findings such as swelling, muscle spasm, or satisfactory evidence of painful motion. In the absence of limitation of motion, rate as below:
With X-ray evidence of involvement of 2 or more major joints or 2 or more minor joint groups, with occasional incapacitating exacerbations...20
With X-ray evidence of involvement of 2 or more major joints or 2 or more minor joint groups...10
Note (1): The 20 pet and 10 pet ratings based on X-ray findings, above, will not be combined with ratings based on limitation of motion.
Note(2): The 20 pet and 10 pet ratings based on X-ray findings, above, will not be utilized in rating conditions listed under diagnostic code 5013 to 5024, inclusive.
§4.45 The joints
As regards the joints the factors of disability reside in reductions of their normal excursion of movements in different planes. Inquiry will be directed to these considerations:
(a) Less movement than normal (due to ankylosis, limitation or blocking, adhesions, tendon-tie-up, contracted scars, etc.).
( B) More movement than normal (from flail joint, resections, nonunion of fracture, relaxation of ligaments, etc.).
© Weakened movement (due to muscle injury, disease or injury of peripheral nerves, divided or lengthened tendons, etc.).
(d) Excess fatigability.
(e) Incoordination, impaired ability to execute skilled movements smoothly.
(f) Pain on movement, swelling, deformity or atrophy of disuse. Instability of station, disturbance of locomotion, interference with sitting, standing and weight-bearing are related considerations. For the purpose of rating disability from arthritis, the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle are considered major joints; multiple involvements of the interphalangeal, metacarpal and carpal joints of the upper extremities, the interphalangeal, metatarsal and tarsal joints of the lower extremities, the cervical vertebrae, the dorsal vertebrae, and the lumbar vertebrae, are considered groups of minor joints, ratable on a parity with major joints. The lumbosacral articulation and both sacroiliac joints are considered to be a group of minor joints, ratable on disturbance of lumbar spine functions.
It sounds like it hurts. Are you rated for your back also? What happened?
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I am trying to help direct my uncle to a good VSO. He lives in Macon, GA. Does anyone know someone in that area? The DAV is hours from his house and in his condition it would not be an option.
Does he have a county service officer in his area? Here is all I could find so far...
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navc...%2c+GA+veterans
Quality Of Life Program
in VA Disability Claims Research
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Hi Testvet. Sorry I missed your post. I'm backlogged around here, today. Got it, ILS = Independent Living Services. Cool. Thanks for the info... And so a PDA is like a palm pilot??? I am reminded of the Seinfeld TV program, where his old dad called them tip calculators, And Kramer got involved somehow... funny show.