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ammodad

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  1. hello again, just figured i would check in and say hi and see how your all doing ??? i have a question about dependents and custody of child . my wife and i were awarded custody of our grandson when he was a baby and we have been raising him from the time he was born i need to know what makes him a dependent in the eyes of the va this young man is like a son to me and i am at a loss i was asking because he has some difficulties and i was trying to see if he qualified as my dependent under the va guide lines any and all help with this matter would be greatly appreciated ??????
  2. p&t ??? why does everything with them have to be in code ???? thanks for all of the support im most certain i wouldn't have known as much or made it as far as i had without you guys and your much needed support. it kept me going when i some times felt like stopping, so i thank you all and i share this victory with you all thanks for being here and sharing with us all . and also to my friend Butch , who left us a few years ago i miss you ......R.I.P my friend. he over looked his problems, pain and continued to give of himself even when he was at his worst and found it hard to do so he always gave his best ..i look forward to seeing you again !!
  3. thank you all for being so kind i was reading over the paper work they sent me and i found somthing i didn't know was there and don't understand just what are they giving me with this entitlement ,, they granted me "entitlement to special monthly compensation based on house bound criteria is being met is granted " what does that mean ??? is this along with my va rating of 100% or included in with i was told by a guy that its a separate amount when i checked the charts that go along with it the numbers dont match so wat am i looking at and for and the charts isn't the best to read or understand the codes being so hard to understand so if anyone can assist me me i in understanding this it would greatly appreciated and thank you all for your support and just being here have a blessed day
  4. well i found out today by asking the right questions that im at 100% the rep told me what my monthly compensation had gone to and after that told me the award amount wasn't looking for him to do that now i was told that being at that percentage there are allot of things we are entitled to that we weren't at the average percentages its like a learning process thank you all for being here and helping me with your much needed info and all of your help and advice without which i wouldn't have been able to make it to here wanted to give it up along time ago but this is proof that if you keep pushing and fighting you will eventually succeed have a blessed day
  5. called the va to check status of my claim today like i do some times and finally got through after waiting for a minute. the guy said let me place you on hold after going over the script they have to go over, he returned and told me mr livingston a decision was made on your claim today and its showing here that a letter will be mailed out to you with the decision and the ratin.... now that usually takes about 30 days from the day they make that decision and the regional office where your located is having a 20 to 30 day time table where they get that done .. ok now my next question was in my mind whats the decision and why would it take them 30 days to send it to me when i'm 10 minutes from them. im just a few red lights from the regional office. i found it kind of strange, weird he wouldn't just go ahead and tell me what the rating was or if it was available to him to do so.. i recall at one point where they told me they weren't able to see it until a certain point that on many occasions the veteran is the first to know and the rating is usually posted later on along with any award if any. just asking does anyone know why they do that and why wouldn't they just tell you your rating ?????? have a blessed day
  6. hello brothers and sisters, its me again and im glad for yall to see me again. just finished last of the tests for unemployability and do to heart condition secondary to afib and copd and its a matter of waiting on the reply figured it would take another year for them to do that , they did do something i have never seen before they actually outsourced my claim to a company called qtc and they were ok easy to deal with good dr along with nexus letter and this dr saying there is no way i can work with or do the work i did with the conditions i have it could go either way but god is good all the time , and its not my will .... got nothing but love for you guys. have a blessed day, and thanks for being there with me through it all, and for all the advice. have a great day and happy easter if i don't see you
  7. was told of this new waive and didnt know it existed anyone know about it and when it started and why ??? thanks and everyone have a wonderful day
  8. yes I'm service connected for both SA , hypertension as well as copd and asbestos
  9. hello brothers and sisters been a while since my last post . I have been waiting on my dr to send me the letter I was needing to finally get this over with he put together a letter that supports my claim I think this letter will be what they were asking for posting a copy of it here. to get opinions as to whether it meets the qualifications of what they say is sufficient to connect the service connected conditions I removed his name out of respect for him and his willingness to actually do this and sign his name to it any thoughts or opinions will be appreciated
  10. hello brother and sisters its me again its good to see you al still here and its good to be seen ... how do you go about gtting your va dr to write that letter he has know problem telling you how and whyyour illbut how do you get him to put it on paper most will tell you they cant conflict of interest or whatever reason whatsthe perfext way t get it on paper????????????????
  11. I am presently service connected at 80% , with copd, asthma, do to asbestos . sleep apnea , and was just diagnosed with afib with arrhythmia with diabetes, I filed for increase do to the dr telling me my copd and sleep apnea are directly the cause of my afib possibly could be on and I was just sent to a whole new sleep study they are telling me my sleep apnea has gotten worse my pressure cpap pressure is at 13 . I also applied for iud what are my chances of actually qualifying for the iud with my conditions ??????? if I were to need assistance with my claim as far as having someone represent me likeka dav rep how wouldi go about getting that kind of assistance
  12. hello once again wanted to ask a question ? i was service connected for sleep apnea some years ago and now they are telling me it has gotten even worse so much so that im being scheduled for another sleep study will i have to apply for an increase do to the fact that it has gotten worse any and all advice will be appreciated and thanks in advance for all of your help god bless
  13. hello brothers and sisters , its me again . just found out a week ago i have ( afib) with rythmia was prescribed oxygen and im on blood thinners and meds to keep my rate in check ok i guess what im asking is since i already have service connection for sleep apnea, and copd do to expsosure to asbestos apnea was a previous finding. not associatd with asbestos. but i was told by my heart dr that the copd and apnea were directly to blame for my afib and rythmia and my heart being stressed and out of wack brurry vision and dizziness, where and what do i do from here? i filled out one of them 21-526bs but wanted to get some input before i move forward please advise thanking you all in advance for your service
  14. hello brothers, and sisters, good to see you all still here got a question and i was wondering what you may think about this and what i should do, i was active in the air-force and stationed at gunter air-force station it hadn’t been changed to a base at the time. i was working in the heating shop and during the time was called out to building 302 for a complaint of no heat boiler wasn’t functioning. i went there and opened the door to the boiler room and checked the gas valve and made certain it was not damaged . i went down to my knee to open the door to the boiler check plate and as i did i saw there was no pilot and realized that it must have been blown out by the wind or a faulty thermocouple got inside to remove the unit to check it now , keep in mind this is one of them boilers you gotta get into to change the thermocouple or anything along them lines it was arranged so far in the rear of the boiler that you had to nearly go half in to do any work on it so i am laying there with half my upper body inside this boiler, and arms extended with tools trying to remove this thing . who comes along a civilian employee who was supposed to be else where but decided to stop by and check on me but didn’t speak upon entering the boiler room and not thinking he took out a tool and you can guess what happened after that ??? he jumped the safety on the gas valve and in doing so he activated the gas valve while my face was inside the boiler combustion chamber all i heard was a (whooooooooooooooooooooooooooosha) and saw bright blue and yellow flames engulfing my head and upper body. i am yelling turn it off and saying a few other words and he ran out side and called the shop i am still i this boiler trying to back out and finally i do get out and my eye brows are gone and my eye lashes are gone my face is pinkish red and i am not a fare skinned person i a chocolate black if that helps you get the image any lol my skin is smoking and my eyes were open during the whole ordeal i saw every thing and when i finally got out my eyes were burning so bad and i couldn’t see anything . I had to drive myself to the va hospital and couldn’t see a thing. Now when I entered the military my vision was 20/20 after this I cant see without glasses and now some time later it hasn’t gotten any better the strength of the glasses has gotten stronger and my last exam he tells me my sight could go permanently he says I got some wired kind of blindness to where there is no explanation as to why but I could be sitting there and I cant see a thing I mean black darkness and so now I am afraid of when and where and what time could it go and not come back and does this boiler accident have any thing to do with it they ran all kinds of test and they told me they couldn’t find any thing in my head and have any one of you ever heard of this or know anyone who has experienced this before need your advice and thoughts and always need you prayers god bless
  15. hello once again finally got to speak to dav rep, and he told me that the rating was 80% and the retro was from 2005 . was at 70% trying to figure estimate on retro but math has me a a dissadvantage
  16. he confirmed decision had been made but wouldnt get into what it was but only asked if i had a fax and that he would fax the forms to me i didnt make out all that he was saying but he mentioned a form 21-8764 and 21610, and 4107, and 2890, 28-1900 any ideas????? was trying to figure what these forms were refering to...
  17. how long after the letter has been generated does it take for them to post award if any or which comes first is what iam asking as a general rule ??
  18. finally the rating is over they have made a rating and put it in a letter to me apparently today but when i called to ask for info on the rating they tell me they cant talk to me about it until i have the letter in hand or have recieved it through the mail go figure never heard that before usually they tell you its this or that but this must be some new fangle way of telling you you been approved or denied looking for anyone who has had this happen to them or went through this themselves , it seems that if its been loaded to the system it should be available to the vet help me understand this sway of thinking ???
  19. ok , its me again hoope this finds all of you doing well, spoke to va regional office and they tell me a descision was made on my claim june 2nd , bu they cant tell me what it is and its not showing in system on dav computers or regional office pcs so how do i go about finding out what the rating is short of awaiting the letter that seems to not be coming use to waiting just dont think i can ever get use to the va`s miss- information and run around just say it and move on it seems they have to have some way of confusing things or having the upper hand at all times they couldnt even use regular math or the regular way of figuring crap and to show you just how confusing they want to be their percentages aint the same as ours when i tell you i am giving you 50% thats what you get when they tell you the same thing they feel the need to snatch 20 i understand it but then i dont have a blessed day and if anyone can answer my question as to how long does it take to be added to the system after getting a rating
  20. i called and they told me it had been rated but they couldnt find it in the system and that i should or would bve getting a letter to that affect she said the reason it didnt show was maybe do to the fact that they were addin git to the sytem or she just didnt know usually i would get a letter or an amount would drop in my account depending on the circumstances but niether has happend this is after talking to the people at the 1800 number the dav reps ..... havent notified me of anything not even that its gotten this far they just say leave a message and someone will call you
  21. hello brothers and sisters its me again , nice to see all of you still here there is strength in numbers. i was told my claim had finally been released from the washington office of appealswith descision and was sent back june 2nd 2012 for them to do what if the veteran board of appeals made a ruling then why ???? , now forgive me if i sound alittle lost but i asked for the hearing and the appeal becuase i didnt trust the people there to handle the job and it seemed they were always jerking me around , didnt even know dav was or had power of attourny over my claim well i guess you wouldnt know it if it meant you actually seen or heared from them i didnt know this until i was told it in a call to check status of my claim , you know the call where you ask them where is my claim, so far or whats the status and they tell you we see where you filed your claim on so and such date and then they say let me place you on hold while i look at your file and then the teacher from charlie brown comes on the phone , speaking that garbled language only they understand and then she says can i be of any further assistance to you if it were possible to get any further confused than i was there you go ... well i missed you all and i wish everyone of you success with your claims and if he stands for you no wone can stand against you i stand with each and everyone of you in prayer and i placemy faith with yours and wish you the desires of your heart ... i read once a few words that said there is no pit that so deep that he is not deeper still if you understand that and stand there is nothing we cant do
  22. it has been before rating board in washington since feb ,,, go figure???
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