ptsd If This Is Not A Cue Clear And Unmistakable Error Then Nothing Is!

[c-vet1982]

November 21 1981 fell out of top bunk (about 5 Ft.) was then put back in bed unconscious until the next day

November 23 1981 went to Emergency Room and complained of pain in right ear, 1"1/4" gash behind right ear

November 24 1981 back to Emergency Room yellowish dried fluid in canal C-File shows question mark after ? ruptured, Cannot Hear, dizziness most likely had a ruptured eardrum from the fall

November 25 1981 back to Emergency Room muffled hearing, Ear Pain, Red Ear Canal

December 7 1981 Back to Emergency Room very nervous, very frustrating attitude

December 14 1981 Hospitalization History of present illness:

squad leader and first sergeant described patient as a good soldier and wished to retain. Two weeks prior to admission he apparently "banged his head" but there was no sign loss of consciousness (WRONG) nor evidence of external injury (WRONG). The initial impression was of a possible toxic agitation secondary to drugs and/or beer (WRONG), and it was decided to rule out a subdural hematoma and a CAT scan was also ruled out.

I now began my 4-month stay in 3 Psych Hospitals in Germany, San Francisco, & Los Angeles all the while being pumped with Thorazine 300 mg, Lithium 1500 mg's, initially I was given Haldol 10 mg. I was frequently visited by a bunch of quack doctors who kept asking me "how does that make you feel" I was so dam medicated my family came to visit me in San Francisco I remember their faces as i could not speak properly I could not think, talk, or walk for months. I barely remember most of my experience, I was eventually denied my benefits for not returning for a medical appointment due to my illness and fear...

Filed my claim March 3, 2010 for paranoid schizophrenia, depression, PTSD, Sleep Apnea, and Ulcerative Colitis and still waiting...

-CP

[c-vet1982]

PainterBK,

Ok sorry for the confusion my timeline is like this:

May 12, 1982 - Placed on Retired List Department of the ARMY @ 70%

September 8, 1982 - Failure to report for examination "disallow'

June 14, 1984 - Removed from TDRL discharged due to permanent physical disability Department of the ARMY @ 10%

I never even made it to the VA.

-CP

[john999]

Is your fight with the Army or the VA?

[PainterBK]

Cvet,

My experience sounds somewhat similiar to yours.

I was sent to Walter Reed In 75, placed on TDRL

@ 30%. Downgraded to 10% with honorable discharge

in 1977 with separation pay. I never had any dealings

with VA until 2009. I filed for VA compensation in

2011 & discovered I had a VA rating of 50% since Feb.

1976. I never even knew I was rated by VA. When I

was hospitalized I had filled out paperwork & because I

was collecting Army disability pay I couldn't receive VA

pay also. Have you seen you're Cfile. When I received

mine it filled in alot of gaps for me. With the help of

the good folks here I was able to work my way

through the maze the VA puts you into.

Good Luck to you. Stick with it and you will

eventually come out the end of the tunnel.

Bob K

[carlie]

PainterBK,

Ok sorry for the confusion my timeline is like this:

May 12, 1982 - Placed on Retired List Department of the ARMY @ 70%

September 8, 1982 - Failure to report for examination "disallow'

June 14, 1984 - Removed from TDRL discharged due to permanent physical disability Department of the ARMY @ 10%

I never even made it to the VA.

-CP

If you've never even made it to the VA with a claim then there has been no rating decision,

no rating decision = no CUE.

How's your ear ?

[c-vet1982]

PainterBK,

Yeah my C-File is 57 pages long and filled gaps regarding banging my head, I never dealt with the VA or the ARMY after I was out of the hospital I was seeing a psychiatrist who kept telling my what happened was because i drink too much. I honestly had a hard time dealing with what happened to me I was completely traumatized by the return home with my parents in denial my brothers and sisters telling everybody I was a "nut job" I almost killed myself when I was about 23. I had lost everything my mind, my high sweet heart, my everything I had this tremor from the medication so my nick name was "shaker" one of my stupid friends. I tried to put it all behind me and move on but reading that C-File made it all come back and I have had so many symptoms over the years I work full time but I struggle with chronic fatigue and especially depression I remember my dad always telling me what's wrong with you? I attending jr. college completed my AS degree but the fatigue was too much to continue, I constantly change jobs as people just get on my nerves literally. I have had ulcerative colitis due to my anger and I have grinned my teeth down and my dentist says i need a mouthpiece at night but I do this while I am awake and they don't get it. I just turned 51 maybe that's why I opened up this wound in my life and it is hard to do this. I did not want to revisit this nightmare but my wife told me to do it as I never told her what happened until recently she just found out and read my C-File I thought she was going to leave me but she is still with me so I do have support I told my son my daughter that I hit my head so they they understand so I am waiting wondering what will come of all this...

thank you for the positive words I will endure as I am a survivor either way...

-CP

[c-vet1982]

Carly,

Yeah the CUE is not my priority just thought when I do the NOD unless my claim outcome is favorable.. Other than the scar my ear I have no long-term problems so I did not add the ear part in my claim.

-CP