Jim MAC

Hi All its been a while. I have taken a break from fighting with the VA for about a year. I have 3 claims waiting on a DRO Hearing for over two and a half years. Today is my C+P exam hopefully that goes well. Well on to my new question. I signed up for the my health website and was looking thru my blood test TODAY and found out I have Chronic kidney disease. Needless to say I am in shock. It shows up on my last two blood tests getting worse each time. Does anybody know if that is connected to working with jet fuels oil and hydrulaic fluid? I have no other factors for it. Nobody in my familly has any history of kidney disease. I due take oxicodine but only when needed and take less then I am prescribed. I figured it says take as needed so If I due not need it I due not take it.. Just one little thought. That is a shitty way to find out you have a disease. I think the VA should have called me and told me I has more health problema. Thanks for reading this and any thoughts on this matter I love to here them Jim (sorry about the spelling I am a little upset right now)

Air force Did the samething to me no phyical said since I had a PHA in the last year no physcial. I was retired with a hole in my face which was active skin cancer. Now after 4 operations they say I am cured.GET A PHYSICAL go to your 1st sgt if you are enlisted and ask for his help in getting one. Jim

John I thought I read under the new rules that the military had to rate you for all condtions makeing a service member undeployable. I just trying to find that law its been a change recently. Thanks, JIM

my wifes nephew is on termnal leave due to his medical problems they are kness and back. On the pre discharge VA paperwork he was told he would be rated at 40 percent yet the navy is kicking him out at 20 percent. I thought they changed the rules for a medical discharge does anybody have any info on that. Thanks in advance for any help Jim

Hello all WSell got a call from my brother in law he got his service pension today plus back pay. We will appeal because I beleive it should be service connected. He got I think 903 a month don't quote me on the AMOUNT. He is supposed to come up from GA this week and I will fill you all in on the details from no job to a pension is better then nothing he is a Vietnam Vet (brown water Navy.) Jim

Hello All, I have not been on hadit in a while but thats another story. My next door neighbor had been rated at 10 percent for what SSA says he was disabled for. I helped him do his claim for increase and it was raised to 20 percent ( no money because he is retired coast guard) and other items defered. I told him to chill out and not worry or do his appeal intil he heard from on his defered claims. He asked me again last week what I charged for helping out I told him one bottle of Jim Beam for every 10 percent of 50 percent. You all need to remember that retires get no extra money if they are less the 50 percent. Well today I recevied 2 HALF GALLONS ON JIM BEAM. He was rated at 70 percent but also rated at 100 percent IU and got 35,000 220 dollars in back pay. So I figured After drinking a quart of the Jim Beam I would share this great news with yolu all. Please forgive my spelling but I am very Happy tonight. To think if the VA wlould have been fair with me I never would have found hadit. The VA screws it self by not being fair to vets all the do is make VA reps out of all of us. Thank god for hadit willie says thank you all Jim

As some of you know I go to a depression group on Mondays. In group one of the guys was talking about his claim. I asked him to bring in his rating sheet. He was rated for 10 percent for Acid reflux with hital hernia. He was turned down for PTSD. I asked him who put him in for PTSD he mentioned a name of a national known charter origination. After talking with him I realized he did not have a claim for PTSD but he did have a claim for depression. He was treated in the Army and by the VA. So we did a claim for a increase and changed his PTSD claim to depression. He acid reflux went from 10 percent to 30 percent and they deferred his claim for Depression till they get all the records. The gentleman called me today and I am on cloud 9. Every time somebody wins that I help out I feel like I won. This gentleman is a Vietnam era vet but not a Vietnam vet. Jim

You can only claim one or the other if u qualify for CRSC that is the way to go. Any questions don't hesitate to ask. Jim

No I am not IU want to work as lonf as I can trying to save money I know that the day I can no longer work it will take 2 to 3 years fighting the VA to get IU. my goal is to work intill i am debt free then keep working till the Dr says I am done. Or intil I get a drug test at work then they will probally put me out of work jim PS was turned down for voc rehab because I was working. I am going to school under the new GI bill afraid I will fail out tho. Do u know If I fail out will the VA come after me for the money they spent?

John Thanks tell him come on back Jim

Pete53 I did not know I could get a rateing for it. I want my teeth fixed. I have gum problems do not know the exact termnolgy. Jim

My VA primary care doctor was the first one to send me to mental health; Here is my claim Department Of Veterans Affairs VA Regional Office 210 Franklin RD Roanoke VA 24011 Dear Sir Please consider this as an additional claim for depression Secondary to my service connected Intervertable Disc syndrome. All medical records are at the VAMC Hampton Virginia. Also consider this to be a request for Service connection for my teeth and gums. I was fitted with a temporary plate for my teeth in 1985 and I am still wearing the temporary plate. V/R Jimmy Mac VA Claim Number

Loved it only one problem they showed the Vet droping his claim off in the mailbox. No return recepit requested. They forgot to show the part where it goes into the shredder. Jim

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Just checked the bank mine is there going to pay for the new mustang interior today. I am doing what our goverment wants I am spending it. Jim

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I hate to ask this question of you all but I really need help with this question. I am trying to help a Vietnam Vet that is in my Monday morning group. Can Sleep apena be SC secoundery to PYSD? He is currently rated at 30 percent for PTSD and lo w balled on type 2 diabeties and prosate cancer for 60 percent total. We are going to ask for a increase in the diabeties and the prosate cancer but if we can win the sleep apena it schould be a slaim dunk for IU. Thanks in advance for any help anybody can give V/R Jim

no His was had a DRO hearing. I testifed for him. His VA advocate was not available so MR Bob Andrews (yes I am putting his name out there) a great advoicate the BEST from the Virgina Vets commsion I think it was represented him. No new C+P exams just off what the VA all ready had. Jim

OK we got the DRO descion told you all last week that the 1800 said he had won well got the wriiten notice today we asked for IU from November 07 THE DRO PAID FROM JUNE 1ST 07. The day he was first unemployed. Lump sum check little over 28,000. P+T He got the whole ball of wax. Got to think the DROS In Roanoke did not get the notice that they are suppose to screw the Vietnam Vets. jim

pigdriver he is diffently a combat vet 123 missions in vietnam 100 over north vietnam in a F-4 This felt better then when I won my skin cancer case becuase we saved this vets house. I say we because I could not have done it without hadit. BEore I came to hadit I did not know about DRO appeals NODs. I thought the VA was here to help me afer 24 years in the service I beleive them. I learned Jim

On April 30th I told you all about my old boss DRO hearing in Roanoke VA. When I first started comeing to this site he was rated at 20 percent. In the last 4 years we your help here at hadit it we got him to 80 percent. We filed the claim for IU in November of 07 he of course was turned down. We recevied the notice I think in Ocy 08. Don't quote me on the exact dates here just the retro date ok. We discussed his case and I decided to skip the DRO appeal and go stright for a DRO hearing. The problem we were haveing is his former employer would not fill out any paperwork saying why he lost his job for either him or the VA. On April 30th we both drove to roanoke for his hearing. I explaind how great I thought his VFW rep was before in a another post. Well on friday we called the 1800 number twice. You all know how sometimes you get 2 diiferent answers well same answer both time. IU awarded back to November 07. We due not know yet if it is P+T but really don't care at this point. He is retired AF and his wife already gets tricare and his kids are to old to go back to school. We have been working this case since the old board. This is the first Vet I ever worked with. HE WILL BE ABLE TO KEEP HIS HOUSE NOW THANKS TO HADIT. . Pete and berta you were the 2 who steped up the most to help this Vet when you go to sleep tonight remember someone will not lose there home to forclourse thanks to you 2 god bless V/R Jim :) :D

Purple I am 10 percent for sinuis infections but the reg states it schould be Higher if you get sinuis infection more the 6 times per year or on put on antibotics for more the 30 days at a time more then twice a year. I do not knoe his SC rate mine is 150 percent but in VA math it is 80 one more 10 percent anywhere brings me to 90 so I am fighting on the sinus infection V/R Jim