Life After 100% Service Connection

[82airborne]

Well now that my claim is finished I'm trying to discharge my student loans so my credit will get better. The vocational rehab guy keep telling me about school. I might as well go to the prison and ask them to enroll MEE. At this point me and people do not mix. Also I don't want to commit to anything. Before I do anything I need to get my health together. I'm pretty much bleeding from time to time out of both ends. Yes. Old doc say my liver point is up most likely to being a alcoholic when I was in my twenties. I been avoiding all contact with unknown people. All I really want. It is not money for school but I just want my credit to get right where I can get a home loan then I pretty much want to disappear to the suburbs of California. Education I can read books. I have no desire to be around people. I walk with a cane every day. I see people looking at me then turning they head when i look they way. But not to stray from what I'm saying I put in for a school loan discharge so I will attempt on letting YALL know how it helps my credit if it do. So this is where I'm at now still going to the psych and medical doctors at the va. So my main goal is to pretty much disappear but not disappear from society.

[john999]

Watch out with the Ambien. It has strange side effects. I stopped taking it because of rebound insomnia.

[82airborne]

I stopped the ambien. It was doin weird stuff with my mouth by my noise holes I still was waking up so I don't know if I needed a higher dose are what.

[Pete53]

For me when I got 100% I was rleieved. It had been a long fight. After that I got depressed about being disabled for life.

Today I am very grateful. In effect I retired very early and until lately the check came on time and was very secure. Now I worry a little about the idiots in Congress doing something stupid but no use worrying till it really happens. I can live fairly decently on income that I get as I tighten up the ship. My wife has ChampVA and that with medicare is litterally a gold insurance policy. 2013 she had hip replacement and several procedures that ended up more than 100,000 and except for 25% copay on meds no real money about of our pockets.

I know that not many will have retirement income like the money we get for disability from Uncle Sam.

Good Luck

[82airborne]

For me when I got 100% I was rleieved. It had been a long fight. After that I got depressed about being disabled for life.

Today I am very grateful. In effect I retired very early and until lately the check came on time and was very secure. Now I worry a little about the idiots in Congress doing something stupid but no use worrying till it really happens. I can live fairly decently on income that I get as I tighten up the ship. My wife has ChampVA and that with medicare is litterally a gold insurance policy. 2013 she had hip replacement and several procedures that ended up more than 100,000 and except for 25% copay on meds no real money about of our pockets.

I know that not many will have retirement income like the money we get for disability from Uncle Sam.

Good Luck

before I got service connected my mind was in a daze it's one last weight lifted off your shoulders then what's left is concentrating on managing your health. Which is easier than sweating writing getting nexus letters writing your stressor over and over again. Old Uncle Sam came thru to my amazement I just knew that I would be denied. I fought my battle for 4 Years my original claim was in 2001 SO IT BEEN A WHILE WORKING UNTIL your body just breaks totally down and it's like they got you in the palm of they hand literally.

:-)

[john999]

I got SSD and worker's compensation before I got TDIU. I had to wait about 8 months from time I lost my job to get WC and SSD. This helped me rest again until I got TDIU. I had prepared for the day I could not work but it was still a shock. I lost 20 lbs waiting just for SSD and WC. I even had private disability insurance, but I still never thought I would become disabled. Denial is a strong impulse. 90% of people are not prepared for disability. Many end up living on SSD. If you can live on $1200 a month more power to you.

[82airborne]

I got SSD and worker's compensation before I got TDIU. I had to wait about 8 months from time I lost my job to get WC and SSD. This helped me rest again until I got TDIU. I had prepared for the day I could not work but it was still a shock. I lost 20 lbs waiting just for SSD and WC. I even had private disability insurance, but I still never thought I would become disabled. Denial is a strong impulse. 90% of people are not prepared for disability. Many end up living on SSD. If you can live on $1200 a month more power to you.

Exactly I waited a year to get ssdi. It took the edge off just barely. But it dam sho helped. The va claim process is what was flipping me out. My last day of work when I realized that I was done and I couldn't work any longer my heart dropped I damned there cried when I had to tell my boss that I. Was finished. Mixed with mental and physical issues I was done but all these years working my back would go out for a while. Truthly my anger stopped me from advancing in life I have literally been either drunk or high since I got out the army I had a bleeding ulcer by 25. I use to get so mad that I would start coughing and I would pass out flat on the ground. If YALL only knew how many police and helicopters was called on me for loosing control chasing people from my pass I didn't like. My life been just one big screw. I use to beg GOD for death even tho I got tdiu I don't mind death knocking at my door even now. It's like my health us going down hill. My life doctors psychiatrist pills room isolated only coming out to use the restroom. Old doctor said well the physical therapy at the va told me it's nothing more they can do besides start giving me shots in my back and I don't think I want to let them needle my back I'm scared they will paralyze me. OOOH we'll we are in this together troops. Love peace and happiness for us all