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[Josh]

Oh my goodness....

I have been away from my computer and this board for so long, I did not even know how to get around the Hadit Main page. And with using this new (for me anyway) Mozilla Firefox it was a Stretch. Yep it was one of you Stretch.

I opened my message box for the first time in don't know how long and saw messages there. ... Wow, a whole lot of you (a bunch), wrote messages. I cannot believe it, but not even realize we had a personal messenger here at Hadit, or at least one that worked. Somewhere along the line when I was using IE, (last week, smile) I Think I wrote a couple of messages but never heard back and did not follow up. No...Wait.. wait... wait... more is returning .... No doubt, I shared messages! Carlie, Berta, Pete, Stretch (a couple times)... Wow now the truth really comes out ...

Wow, that is a terrible fault I need to correct. I must tell you those of you I have shared with, I am so very sorry my friends. So much raw emotion has covered me over the last years that it only occurred to me the past Sunday we are getting slimed everywhere.

I learned that there is no question I absolutely must have PTSD. I must share with you all what has happened. You will never know how odd this sounds coming from these hands, but what has happened over the past 19 years has damn well got to be God's friggin plan! That I am alive and able to write here on Hadit, incredible. How lucky and with people I think give at least a little bit of rats a. I think.. Smile ..si o no .... The time here in Colombia the last ten years, it is is show-in. .

It has been a long long journey Getting to where I am today these 19 years later to be exact.

I have so much to share... I feel good.... Kinda anyway...

I have met so many people here it would be impossible to greet all I know.

But yes my claim has made it to the BVA and I have basically 30 days or so to file a reply to the Medical Opinion Response form... They included their Experts Medical Opinions in the Memorandum sent and now it is up to me to work through my PVA to finish this level of the claim.

I will edit the documents I am going to upload so no personal identifiers are left. Carlie I was sooo sick when I ask you to edit / delete the uploaded pages for security reasons, I could not even sit on my rear. Please please please accept my humble apologys..... Bows to Carlie

OK, no doubt, this time I will be back....l

Josh

Colombia

Boulder Colorado

[retiredat44]

Retired. I'd love to get your suggestions

It would take lots of physical activity,,, unless you can hike like you are young and healthy, and take brutal heat.................. I would have to forgo giving the info out for the most adenvurous and give you some places that you could just go take easy walks and enjoy some fine outdoor dining with easy sight seeing..

I mysleft went on weeek long adventures through the hillsaides of an archelogical place in San Augustin,, and the Amazon,, also visited Armero only because a relative owned a home a few minutes from the ruins of the volcano in the 1980's. brutal kiing, horseback riding and jungle trenching and boating. I do recommend the boat trips (day trips to the islands off Cartegna..).. veyr enjoyable, but the boats of fast and noisy as hell,, thye drip you off on islands many miles off shore for a few hours.. San Augustin was a blast,, but the hiking is only for people who can hike all day for 1 week and take a very long miserable bus ride a few hours outside of Bogota.. but in Cartegna, you enjoy thos islands off shores,, and fine dining and nice nightlife.. the accomadations are nice when you get to these places.... but you must take some unpleasant long journeys..

[Berta]

Josh, of course the 2 VA med Opinions you attached here will go against the claim.

I received this same kind of stuff many times in SOCs and SSOCS, from the VARO but my 1151 never got to the BVA.

The only reason RO finally awarded it was because I had won the FTCA case and the record and medical evidence was well established in that case that VA had committed malpractice.

“As you can read, the BVA is requesting my response to the two two medical opinions provided courtesy of the VA Medical Expert Staff who reviewed the 1151. “

“Note that NO mention is made with regard to the Milwaukee Wisconsin VA Chief Neurologist's opinion, who agreed with the diagnosis here in Colombia was correct.”

Can you post copy of this additional med opinion?

Do you mean that the VA has NEVER addressed this opinion? Not even the BVA?

Has your BVA case been posted at the BVA web site yet?

That is a point to raise on the BVA response and make sure you include to the BVA a copy of that opinion.

I am going to repeat my advise to all Sec 1151/FTCAs here.

Get an Independent Medical Opinion!Get one from a specialist in the field of the disability.

It could also be very advantageous to get a lawyer too-

Some negligence and malpractice issues are prime facie cases-they are so obvious that the VA might try to combat the claim but will ultimately fail.My 1151 friend's claim I mentioned in the 1151 forum was so obvious (although he didn't understand it at all), that the same RO who took 3 years to award my claim, took mere months (and no C & P) to award him 100% P & T plus SMC under 1151.

(He still thanks me for that but still doesn't understand it. He had 40 SC for GSW prior to that and has since been rated in addition at 50% PTSD and I believe strongly that his PTSD has always interfered with his intellect causing a smart man to be unable to comprehend how the VA malpracticed against him )

Most 1151 cases are not that easy.

Although I didnt have any IMos for my 1151 or FTCA I did get 3 for my last claim.The VA would have fought me for many more years (it took 7 years until they paid me in 2010 -almost a year after the award- what a battle it all was. I had discovered additional malpractice involving an AO condition and could not file again under 1151.)

I spent 4 thousand on two IMOs and had a freeby from a former VA doctor it took me 8 months to track down and then I even spent another 1750 (part of which was refunded as I got the BVA award before this IMO was prepared.)

My point is this-IMOs are an investment into a true independent review of any VA claim.

If they reveal negligence and malpractice, they will be afforded great weight when and if the VA reads them.

(BVA took note in my award letter of how many times I submitted my IMOs to the RO and they were always ignored)

If an IMO from a specialist does NOT reveal malpractice, you have spent money but have gained true piece of mind,knowing the VA gave you adequate care.

When I got stuff like what you posted under 1151 in SOC,SSOCs, I strongly attacked -with medical evidence- everything they said that was wrong.

Funny thing is the VA fought me from early 1995 to 1998 on my 1151 yet I found their first medical review for both the 1151 and the FTCA that was done (similiar in form to what you posted here)

supported ALL of my charges!!!!! It was dated only a few months after I filed these claims.

That report mysteriously disappeared from my C file right after the regional counsel gave it to the VARO but I got copy of it in 2003, after I had won those claims.

Both the RC and the doctor who prepared it assured me that, although VA said this report never existed, they in fact had it.

It is now superb evidence for my current AO claim.

If we had the lawyers for vets regs in those days, no lawyer would have put up with the way VA was messing with my evidence.

And if I had obtained an IMO for those claims I would have saved many many months of my time studying cardiology and neurology to win them.

[Josh]

Berta my friend , Of course they will deny it.... I need to upload another chart entry with the DX clearly written... I will be answering your questions soon,,,hmm just lost the power

[Berta]

At first glance your MRI presents 2 classic abscesses to me.

But the more I look at it, it appears that the circle ,the lining of each 'abscess' is broken and that could indicate MS.

Brain abscess diagnosis often involve axial T MRIs , usually echo planar, and can reveal

restricted diffusion (low ADC values) But low ADC values can also signify other problems.

A good Neuro Radiologist like Dr. Bash can assess the MRI and other medical evidence better then anyone I know and he also has MS himself so he could definitely interpret this MRI as to whether abscesses or MS.

If these are in fact brain abscesses that resolved with medication, then you need a strong medical nexus for them, as the cause of your disability.

Myhusband's brain MRI had an extensive narrative with it which was in his medical records.

Do you have a copy of the MRI narrative?

When brain injuries occur their affect is due to where they occur in the brain .I had to make a chart of a brain and then color code it in detail to correspoond with not only the VA MRI brain damaged areas but with the autopsy of my husband's brain.

For example he had occipital damage and I proved this was cause of his nystagmus and peripheral vision problems.

He was paralyzed for 2 months on the left side indicating right hemisphere damage to frontal lobes.

I did a full report and chart for where each brain damage occurred (with autopsy and MRI0 and then corresponded that to know medical standards that proved the residual physical and mental affects to him.

This was hard work and I also did the same thing regarding his heart disease using a photo of an actual autopsied heart for the charts.

I had undebatable prime facie evidence of malpractice because I did all of this medical research and work.BUT I wish I had known of Dr. Bash in those days.

We claimants can present to VA a valid lay opinion on medical issues but it better be top notch and perfect and then actually be considered by the VA to succeed.and it has been done.

But I again advise anyone with 1151 issues- please get an IMO.I missed spending precious time with my daughter in the months before she joined the military ---

in order to constantly review, research , and perfect my medical evidence for my 1151 FTCA claims and keep within the deadlines.

An IMO would have given me much more time with her before she left for Lackland.And well worth the cost.

[Josh]

Smile berta but those MRI's when original in the folder where clearly totally closed bilaminar lined walls. what is worse is that I sent THEM the originals and they "lost" them. The scan you are looking at is of the photo of a copy of a photo.

MRI that has been scratched and worn... They were clearly classic absses lesions additional with LP showing elevated protein levels and CBC's showing periodic shifts in the cellular profiles generally in the leukocyte count but specifically in the Neutrophil levels.

Directly correlating the cellular patterns to the dosing if antibiotics gives a graphical picture that there is no doubt we are dealing with a bacterial infection.

Nice try Berta and I would love to challenge anybody o the scientific details of this case. I have TWO huge cases of Documents that to be honest Berta, I do not want the medical world to miss out on the chance to use what was learned in this horrible error.... The damage is done and who will benefit if the science can not be recorded. What to do...

Its the Casey Anthony case in some kind of cosmic inverse... smile How geeky I can be when I want he he he