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ssg_rw_brown

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  1. and i thank you both for your input! This forum is the only thing that gives me hope on most days! and not give up
  2. May I ask what symptoms you have that rate you 100% TBI? or is that to personal?
  3. yes it's SC with a low rating 10% We go for the Neuro on the 23rd at the VA it is with the head of the TBI department there, I'm not sure if it's just neuro or neuro psych but i'm going so I will be able to ask lots of questions He has never had a MRI that I"m aware of. He has no paralysis but short term, memory loss, change in personality, problems making decisions, passing out for no known reason, changes in taste, anxiety, depression, ect. ect.
  4. Yes, he is SC at 10% , angry because I think he qualifies for the at least a 40% by what I'm reading.
  5. My husband had his C & P and we got the rating back last week. I am so frustrated and agrivated I just want to rip my hair out. I knew it would not be good but to see it in black and white just made me so angry. First I acutally went into the C & P with him. I hadn't before because they wouldn't "allow"me to. But after research when the C& P rater said "do you need to be here" my husband said I would like her to be and he said "oh, o.k" that simple! Wow! So we go into the room and he asks my hsuband all these questions and when he would say well I dont' think it's a problem but my wife would disgree I would explain. I would even raise my hand and ask if I could comment and he would say yes, and write as I spoke. So i thought he might be listening....wrong....Everything we said he said no, I don't think it's TBI it's the PTSD. Which angered me because at the PTSD hearing they said it was all the TBI! Everything I read about TBI and the symptoms associated with it I brought up. The change in tastes, he said awe that's just a preference. Problems with concept of time and place, when he passes out and comes to he thinks he's in Iraq. The sleep deprivation, the change in personality, the anger and hostility, the paranoia. Not being able to make minute decisions such as what to have for dinner. Calling me 30 times a day to ask me a how to do the littlest thing, the C & P guy just "poo poo" it as irrelevant! and then when we go the ruling letter nothing, I mean nothing was in there about what we had told him! I wrote this long letter with all of it in there and nothing was mentioned about the letter I wrote nor the other 2 letters we sent either from friends and family's observations How do I know they even read them? I just don't know where to go from here! Everything they mention in the rulings says to be at the next level you would have to have x? and he has that and we mentioned it in meeting and in the letters. He goes for a complete Neuro work up on the 23rd of this month so my only hope is that will help and we can possibly get something in writting there but not even sure now. I just feel like I am getting no where and don't know what else to do. Thanks for letting me vent! wife of SSG_RW_Brown
  6. O.k. in fear of feeling stupid but how did yu get all your VA records on CD?
  7. Well we got the appt. for the Neuro it's not until November 23rd.
  8. I had him call his speech doctor and ask if she was putting in for the neuro , she said she had not but would do that at his request. So we just wait for the appt. time now to arrive int he mail. I am thinking I should send int he form request they wait for additioanl informaiton to decide his case. Any thoughts? until the neuro exam is done at least.
  9. TY we had a C & P for the TBI on last Friday. The doctor was not very optimistic for a higher rating. He said he beleive everything pertained to the PTSD and nothing I site was pertaining to the TBI. Now mind you that this is the same doctor who decreased his PTSD. And he said oh he has PTSD bad. I did ask if he would be rated under the new criteria as he was rated in September prior to the October change and he said yes.
  10. I did not realize you could do this? Can you get copies of all yoru C& P exams or only your most recent? This is very good information thank you for sharing that. wife of SSG_RW_Brown
  11. TY, he has only saw his primary once and she was rude and told him it was his own fault for hurting his knee and hasn't went back. Because he chose to beat his knee out of the Upper ARmored Jeep that ran over the IED. He was under fire from insurgents and vs. staying put he chose to beat his knee out of the console because it was stuck and return fire along with his men. That's why I am now goign to all appt. with him because I told him she would have not gotten away with talking to him like that. He said she was a young prior medic but that is no excuse. He sees our doctor locally if he needs and see the Psych at the VA and the Speech Doctor who works with him on his memory loss issues. She is the once who suggested the Neuro work up too so didn't know if she would follow through on it or we needed to do it.
  12. How would one go about getting this testing done? Preferrably by the VA but if I need to I guess thorugh and independent doctor?
  13. Thank you so much! I have redone it and rmoved the link to just that one...the new link is May 22 2009
  14. Yes I did get a reply to it and I do thank you for it. I actually printed out all the replys so Ic ould go over it more throughly and make note of the action I took.
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