Ideas For Writing A Good Buddy Letter

[hawkcrewchief]

Anybody have an idea what a good buddy letter should state (verbage) in order to take with me to my sleep apnea study next week? I have tracked down two of my old roommates but no one knows what to write, including my wife. Does anyone have some advice or examples?

[hawkcrewchief]

events leading up to and before incident causing the sleep apnea.

What could possibly be the factor or incident which brings sleep apnea on? I have had a grenade explosion incident, and an incident where I struck my head on the helicopter so hard I cracked my flight helmet. I served in combat or wait President Clinton calls having freaking bullets shot at a Medivac helicopter while in a minefield in Kosovo a "Peacekeeping Mission" ughhhhhhhhh guess Mogadishu was one also...? I have a BP chart that I have been recording from my SMR I never had BP problems and since my time in service check out the numbers I found in medical records. At my C&P exam last week I hit 150/75 while resting, the same numbers in both arms with a manual reading.... B) :D

10/1998 151/75 10/1998 144/67 2/1999 146/71 4/1999

124/64 8/1999 130/70 8/1999 164/84 8/1999 130/57 10/1999 138/88 6/2000 135/84 10/2000 148/80 3/2001 136/71 1/2002 125/64 8/2002 156/80 10/2002 143/69 12/2002 149/86 12/2002 124/76 1/2003 140/87 1/2003 150/84 1/2003 145/84 1/2003 140/79 3/2003 152/85 3/2003 144/70 4/2003 130/77 4/2003 144/81 9/2003

142/75 10/2003 141/83 10/2003 144/72 10/2003 136/77 11/2003 156/81 11/2003 154/73 12/2003 147/86 2/2004 150/105 :) 2/2004 147/81

[hawkcrewchief]

Sorry if im asking too many questions but im getting all my ducks in a row before my string of exams next week. Im so nervous......

[Pete53]

To get sleep apnea Service Connected you would have to show you had it or the symptoms while you were in service or at least within 1 year of leaving.

Good Luck

[dwilli12]

I had my wife and a buddy each write a buddy letter. I also wrote one for myself. Each letter was written on this form:

http://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/VBA-21-4138-ARE.pdf

As other have already replied, they should list all observed symptoms, and the who/what/when/where/why/how in the best detail that can be managed.

Good Luck!

dwilli12

[hawkcrewchief]

I had my wife and a buddy each write a buddy letter. I also wrote one for myself. Each letter was written on this form:

http://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/VBA-21-4138-ARE.pdf

As other have already replied, they should list all observed symptoms, and the who/what/when/where/why/how in the best detail that can be managed.

Good Luck!

dwilli12

Im having trouble trying to find something to connect it to. I had a non displaced fracture of the nasal bone which is in my SMR. Im wondering if there was a deviation along with it which I can use as the SC i need, since when I was in the military I never knew what SA was.

[LarryJ]

With a "non-displaced fracture" it's gonna be hard to arrive at a "deviated septum", because a "deviated" septum IS a displaced fracture, or, rather, the fracture causes deviation of the septum. Now, having said that (and having suffered both problems, personally) a deviated septum can also occur from other causations.