What Benefits?

[SLEDGE]

Well comrades,

The Chief of Staff at Little Rock says no operation.

He looked at the MRI but, not me.

The examiner, it was not the chief, said that they only operate on spinal stuff if the operation is to save your life.

I'm done.

Tanks, but no tanks.

If I had-a known about this crap in 1970 I woulda become a Canadian and never gotten into this mess.

From a gratefull nation my ass.

sledge

[Guest fla_viking]

Dear Sledge

You have a right to appeal that decission. Maybe get a IMO to confirm you need the surgury. There saying they only operate on spinal issues may be personal opnion and not law. I would not let them do this to you because they can make a mark out of you and keep dong this stuff to you.

Terry Higgins

[Josh]

Sledge, Josh here and I truely agree with Terry. When you know what you need and keep on working toward that goal, you will acheive it. I have nearly died trying to get my claim as far as its gone and the two step is not over yet, Don´t give in to delay tactics.

Josh

[Guest allanopie]

Terry & Josh give good advice Sledge.

Don't take that crap. Drop the hammer on them.

You have the right to appeal medical decisions & seek a second opinion. What they want is for all of us to give up. One by one works good for them to. If your getting the feeling your talking to an idiot, you may be. Some work for the VA. The private sector doesn't lack for them either when it comes to health care.

I once bothered to take the time to ask one of the VA's leading neurologist on MS at a DVA research facility, what he knew about AO, gulf war illness, vaccine adjuvants like squaline, bio-toxins, or vanadium? His response was, "absolutely nothing". All I could think of saying was, "what the hell good are you to us Vets"? He said I didn't have to return to this clinic. NO DUH! I knew that when I asked the question.

The thing I don't understand is, what does a leading research facility receive over $26,000,000 for, if they hire neurologist so incompetent as to know, "nothing" of the injuries military personnel experience, by the hundreds of thousands in this nation. I was sent to this guy by the, "Environmental Hazards Clinic" for a complete evaluation. after finally calling the clinic number they provided and I had been broadcasting all over the INTERNET for over 3 months. I could not get a referral from anyone at the local facility & spoke with many vets having the same problem.

You would not believe the runaround I received, trying to locate the hazards clinic in the first place. Once I found them, I explained how much trouble Project Shad, Gulf Vets etc, are having in finding help in my region & I was told I could put out the word to any vet, that they only need to contact this clinic & they don't need a referral.

Well, guess what the first concern was when I got there? Who referred me! There was great concern between the examiner at the Hazards clinic & the neurologist he sent me to over me getting an appointment "with out" a referral. Yet, in practice, the neurologist wasn't concerned enough to find the brain lesion in the "corpus callosum" on the MRI they took the day before. Nor was he concerned enough to view a long history of treatment for multiple sclerosis, as my VA medical records show.

I don't make this stuff up folks. I'm psychotic, but I'm not stupid enough to just come here & make up crap. This is in my records.

Nail em sledge!

allan

[john999]

Allan

I think that most private doctors know nothing about connections between things like DMII and Agent Orange exposure. I asked my private internal medicine doctor about AO and DMII and he knew nothing about it. He said it was just being overweight that caused it in most persons. Long term affects of dioxins are just not widely understood or screened for by the medical community.

[Guest allanopie]

>I think that most private doctors know nothing about connections between things like DMII and Agent Orange exposure.

Hello John,

It's not any different with VA health care. There are specialists, but few of us see them & many are providers that have been run out of the private sector. The majority of them, never served, no nothing about military occupational hazards, illnesses or toxins, who to refer us to, or how to treat us, but are proficient in deterring us from seeking care, while shoving their (private sector) philosophy of,"I don't get it, so you don't deserve the benefit either", down our throats at every opportunity.

I really wish someone could do an undercover documentary, catching on camera, the treatment vets receive by some VA personnel, for the whole country to see.

Do the rest of you get checked for a wire, before the Dr gets into any discussion?

Have you been told, "maybe the reason you have trouble getting health care, is from talking to those in DC"?

[john999]

Allan

You are right. My VA primary care doctor is a nice woman, but she has never, ever asked me about agent orange even though I have AO conditions. No one in all the time I ever went to the VA asked about exposure to AO except when I had the AO Registry Exam.