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Lawrence Seward

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About Lawrence Seward

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  • Location
    Silverdale WA,

Previous Fields

  • Service Connected Disability
    20%
  • Hobby
    Art and Gardening

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  1. Updating again. I was supposed to go back to work on the first. Then A vetrens "Stand down" fair was held at the fairgrounds. I decided to delay my starting time so I could get a hair cut and some work clothes. I was excited about it because last time I was able to get my food stamps that I have been tring to get for five years. A day before I went to the stand down fair, I was talking positivly with some and they ended up berating myself as a beggar. So when I went to the fair I mentaly broke down. I froze up. I have been trying to help myself for years now. working with what little I have. When I was at the fair all I could think about was how right that person was. I went from a promising vocation in medicine, to a homeless crazy vetren hiding from the world out in the woods. But still I drudge forward with hopes that one day I might come to some semblance of what my life was.
  2. Well thought I would update with the goings on. After the classic long wait I have been approved by a back ground check to return to work. Assuming that the standard goverment wait I wont be returning to work till after the begining of the month. I will be helping other vetrens at the retsil in port Orchard WA. going there I will be facing one of my great fears. If I can face this fear then maybe I will be able to return to the medical field. I just don't see how a person that hears unbodied screams in the middle of the night would be fit for the medical field. but maybe this is what I need. Scares me even thinking about it. any way just adding an update. take care and thanks.
  3. as far as I know Voc rehab is not saying wether it is SC or not, I don't really know what my status is. every time I have gone in to get some answers I get sent back to the doctors, which has brought me to a paranioa of the medical system. When I go in and see the doctors they wonder why I am there to see them. I tell them that Voc REhab sent me and my condtion has gotten worse but is not an emergancy. After all of the initial test that one takes to get into the Vov rehab system my counsler said I was entiteled for something but was not specific and put me on an "extended evaluation". over two years of this.
  4. Yesterday I relized that it had been eight years since I walked out of work to join the military (Not that I wasn't planning to do so any ways. but when the towers fell I felt I had no choice but to step up for my family and country. I could have held out and got some college for a higher pay grade upon entry, but the times did call. I injured my back during training, I finished all of my academics but could not complet the phyisical tests. needless to say I was Med. boarded out against my will. like most trainees that get med boarded It was grilled into me that I was useless. I tried to stay in, thinking that if bruce LEE could come back from a back injury so could I. It was decided by the VA that I am 20% disabeled. being trained in the medical field I found that to be wrong, so I appealed to no avail(they raised one rating while dropping another). I spent years trying to fit back into normal society, failing every time. How can a person that is trained to have there hands inside another humans body, under fire, ever fit in. So I decided that I would try Vocational Rehabiltation. Maybe I thought, maybe there might be a away. but after two years of waiting I am still unemployed, barely making it by. When I first went to VOC Rehab, all I needed was a computer, and schooling. every time I go and see my Voc Rehab counsler I get sent back to the doctors. whom either dont care, or tell me the same thing that I wont get better just worse. at times I hoped that the VA would see my plights and "Be like oops out bad" and raise my percentage. I guess I just don't know what to do. I don't fit in, I've gone crazy, and I... just need help. Lawrence E. Seward
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