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Ufrustrated2

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  1. i have a telehealth MDE exam soon due to a claim that was filed. looks like the exam is for depression, psyc dx, and cognitive assessment, through the years and currently. it's been quite a few years since i've had one of these and back then they were in person. any advice and/or tips for these modern telehealth MH appts? what to expect?
  2. i will read it. thanks. i had a MH IMO from him too. it was ok in linking MH to the SC neuro issues. i think for the $ i would have liked a referral from him to civilian MH practitioner but didn't happen. i also got a MH one from civilian for my lawyer that he requested i get. bva appeals for that was granted recently. took years like most of us. certainly grateful for that, but what struck me negatively about the decision was VA didn't link any of the MY health issues to the SC injuries + disease that they had already granted prior and added quite a few secondary issues to those. my experience has been if a veteran doesn't get the correct diagnosis and links(secondary issues) to the injuries & disease you'll run into neg issues at VA with doctors, treatments & claims, etc. edit: i did read that maryland case. interesting. i can see Mr F feeling the way he did. it was sticker shock to me at first. i couldn't find a dr in this town to write anything and certainly i got zero help from VA. the civilian MH dr i saw and paid the lawyer had asked for was way less than Dr Bash. i'm glad i got a lawyer as i don't have the talent to write up stuff. the VA turned me down a few times the way i wrote things. but, i went through a handful of attorneys that wouldn't take my cases up. said they were unwinnable. yet found one, and they were granted. Dr Bash helped with one not so sure about the MH one. i will add VA didn't agree with a few things the Dr Bash and civilian shrink wrote. strange b/c the C&P dr agreed with a lot of it. VA central office has a lot of sway with what VA Dr's can say and write, i will say that for those that don't know.
  3. thanks. i thought he had someone. sorry for reply delay, got back from surgery yesterday.
  4. understood and thank you for your reply. i probably should have mentioned i have an attorney. he had filed the claims+appeals some years back with IMOs along with all the mil/va evidence. i think the latest claim was by BVA. anyways, the attorney was going to review it after he notified me and that he had basically "won". he said it was favorable but there were some sticking points he wanted to address/review. that was a few weeks ago. i know attorney's rarely get back until something concrete or worth it to take the time. so, i had recalled, Dr Bash back then had a paralegal or something that handled some issues. i was wanting, granted maybe impatiently, to get their opinion on it comparing my thoughts to his. thanks again, you've always had sound rational advice.
  5. just a general question if Dr Bash still working? sent a few emails so far. i do recall he was always extremely busy. he did a few IMOs a few years back for me. and now i wanted to ask him or his legal person a question regarding a recent somewhat favorable appeal decision. tia
  6. does the VA help with funding and/or grants to help 100%SC veterans with getting a mobility support harness for their service dog? my GSD-SD is certified for this task & etc's. his trainers recently recommended a few harnesses to choose from and they each get custom made for dog and handler.
  7. i sent out the note here before i went back and re-read the attorney's email from a year or so ago. your reply prompted me to go back do so. i went on ebenefits and the appeals status is, "Your appeal is at the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, waiting to be sent to a Veterans Law Judge". your & others replies have me staying course and not entertaining firing. i have no compelling reason, as you say. i thought about it and posted here, and now see it would be more harmful to my current appeals. wise course of action to wait and re-evaluate as you point out. thanks for the feedback/advice. my thinking sometimes needs to be reigned in.
  8. apologies for late reply...in/out of hospital for issues...back now for a few days. i have read somewhere on the internet a quote by one of the former VA central office DC attorneys who boasted the same. i.e., we vets were more akin to an enemy of theirs and they rejoiced each time the beat us (down). i can't find the web page now, but i think he has a law firm now representing & helping veterans. the general public and new vets have no idea just how adversarial the place is.
  9. i would have appealed that low-ball RO too. which in one sense is what we are doing after the non-sensical ssoc decision written by RO here and has since been moved up to bva. it is serious as i don't have skills to rep myself. they may be incompetent but they have the power to put claims in limbo for years+, send back non-sensical decisions and keep the vet bouncing about for years. even good attorney's don't seem to be able to stop that.
  10. they already asked this. but i was more interested in current attorney completing the current appeals and they would pick up after these appeals is what i told them. after so much time & va putting my claims in limbo while on ramp, i thought "maybe" a new attorney and they can work these appeals along with new issue we discussed. the RO is certainly jerking us around. probably SOP for all this. of course not regarding attorney getting paid. the feedback i'm getting here is that is a bad idea. point taken
  11. since it had to deal with an appeal to cavc, according to @broncovet, it is normal routine to adjust a fee agreement so it appears.
  12. i understand about that being prohibitive. but my understanding of that updated form i signed was that if lose, va will pay for his time. i'll look that doc up and re-read it. we do get some promises made. and when those aren't met what recourse does the vet have? like you, you find another one. that's important to know about the fee waived. i knew of the POA release. i've done that with PVA back in the day when i first signed on with an attorney. it is tough without the representation for sure, especially for many of us. i'm sure that was my reasoning in my mind why i signed that at the time. but i was frustrated the cue was dropped and pretty much not discussed anymore. kinda felt like the va "got to him". ya know? probably not like that but you know what i mean. but the attorney did work up other issues and got another imo for issues clearly showed on mil med docs that va ignored for years. so maybe that's a more "winnable" argument than the cue. beats me. he originally took on the cue as he thought that was winnable all things considered. thanks for your reply, good info.
  13. i'll check with him. that's a good idea. i'll re-read that email and updated contract i signed last year. memory not as sharp as it was. thanks
  14. the va will pay him some amount for his time even if we lose. that is my understanding. he hasn't been paid anything yet i don't think. if we win he gets his % which is standard and i have no issue with that.
  15. i had thought that too. i'm aware of what a contract is. the claims at first where on he gets paid if we win. but that changed when he dropped the cue claim. then moved to other claims going back to injury date. that's when the paper came up to sign for va to pay for his time whether we win or not. like you say that was mid-stream for me also. finding lawyers to take on anything but guaranteed wins is extremely difficult, especially for va claims. if i could do it myself, i would have. but i don't have the skills say of a "berta".
  16. it didn't start out that way. he believed the cue would be a go and took the case. then after some time, he switched gears for other claims and dropped the cue saying va wouldn't go there. then for the new claims on other health issues, i signed that payment clause that va pays him for his time. yeah, risky. often wonder what va and he talk about deal wise or something like that
  17. my appeals claim has been sent up to BVA this year. it had gotten lost for like a year at DRO or filed wrong, something like that they said. even with the RAMP we're now over two+ years for this appeal. so much for fast track. lawyer had to write a scathing note to DRO for their non-sensical judgement. DRO wouldn't even acknowledge civilian imo's. so he got it sent up to BVA. i may have asked this before, can't recall. but is it standard for lawyers to get veteran to sign papers so lawyer gets paid by VA for his time whether he wins my case or not? also, what are the ramifications if a veteran wants to fire current lawyer and switch to a new one if the satisfaction factor is really low regarding current lawyer?
  18. veteran lawyer submitted a nod back 07/2014. varo informs today they haven't a record of receiving the nod. i was told this usually means they haven't yet logged it into their system. is this typical va time frame to getting around to log in nod's into their system, or did they lose it, or what? lawyer has reciept of it being delivered. we may need to resubmit nod in a few weeks i'm told. should i sit back and take this as typical va behaviour?
  19. i used to be able to take non-VA medical reports to ROI and they would scan them into my VA records. now i found out, they no longer do that. the roi office person said it was up the doctor to request that and that i would need to show my VA doctor the medical reports and he would deem whether it would be put into my VA records. what if the medical report contradicts VA doctor? i'm to believe he would request it put into my records. is there a regulation protecting the veteran about such matters so i can mention that in order to get pertinent medical reports into my va records?
  20. >>I got a lawyer but he transferred me to another lawyer I liked but didn't like the fee agreement so I revoked my POA.(they wanted me to leave the agreement undated.No way) Berta, i don't understand the "undated" issue for the lawyer you had as POA. what does that do to screw you and help them? thx
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