Camp Lejeune And Cancer

[john999]

On the front page of my newspaper today was a headline that said that a definite link between cancer and the water at Camp Lejeune has been shown by the statistics over a 30 year period. So now who is responsible for all the death and disability? Will DOD or VA take responsibility? I wonder how long it will take for the many deadly cancers linked to the water at Lejeune to make it on the presumptive list? The water was cleaned up in 1987, so for 30 years before that people at Camp Lejeune were being contaminated and poisoned. This may rival AO since it the water was consumed for 30 years. I wonder how a vet or dependent who has been sickened by the poison water at Lejeune will file a claim, and will this new evidence be all they need? Will they still need IMO/IME's?

John

[JT24usn]

Begins on page 8

http://www.bva.va.gov/docs/VLR_VOL5/Cleary-Tooshi.pdf

[john999]

Now the link is scientifically established. The question is how long will it take for vets and dependents both living and dead to get compensation? I can see the backlog growing because as in Nehmer I bet the VA or DOD or somebody is going to have to go back in time and compensate the living and the dead if they died from the cancers implicated in the news report I read. The study compared those who worked and served at other Marine bases with Lejeune. The number of cancers are significantly higher at Lejeune sometimes 30% to 40% higher for kidney and other types of cancer. This news should be going off like a bomb at VA HQ.

[GuaymasJim]

John, the VA cannot or will not handle its job now. They will just turn a blind eye to this newly acknowledged disaster until all of us are dead and gone. Given the deteriorating quality of medical care at the once vaunted VA, they won't have to wait long.

[john999]

Jim

There was another blurb in the newspaper today walking back the "definite and conclusive link" between cancers and the water at Camp Lejeune.

The Marines are saying there is not enough evidence and there need to be "more studies". The Marines say there need to be more comparative studies between all vets and the Camp Lejeune vets to look at cancer rates. Most of those exposure happened in the 50's,60's, 70's. By the time all these studies are done the victims will all be dead if they suffered the cancers. I read that one million were potentially exposed to contaminated water.

I agree the quality of VA is deteriorating pretty fast. I am thinking about getting out of the system all together. I just stick around for free meds. The meds are not really free since they charge my private insurance. I have DMII, heart problem and nerve problems in my hands and feet due to agent orange, and the VA still charges my insurance when I see my PCP at the VA. How is my VA doctor supposed to check my AO health problems without seeing me. I thought the VA was not supposed to charge anything for service connected conditions?

John

[GuaymasJim]

I was stationed at Camp Lejeune three times during my career. I consider myself lucky not to have DMII as I spent all of my time in Vietnam in northern I Corps where the concentrations of AO were the highest. We drank it, ate it, washed with it, slept with it, bled with it, and many died with it. We all now know that many have died from it. Now it's just a flip of the coin whether I die with it or from it. My heart condition is very severe as are all the other arteries in my body from head to toe. So, which ever area stops up first will determine the way I go out. Since I suffer from a condition which includes random and inappropriate dilation and contractions of the cranial arteries--that would be my guess.

Adding exposure to the toxic water at Camp Lejeune just doesn't ring my bell very loudly. It is just another proverbial straw on the donkey's back; and I'm the donkey.

[Navy04]

I feel so bad for what you guys are going thru. I was diagnosed in 2009 with Crohn's Disease while active. The VA tried to say it was due to my DNA, and not the Parasites that I contracted in OIF/OEF and South America, WTH! I am so tired of us having to prove what the VA already has in front of them. What the Govt wants is for us to give up and die, and save them a few bucks, and a cheap Burial in the long run. I pray for all of us Everyday, and I really mean that. We are all we got, and I am so tired of getting out of my Car, and at 31, people see my Disabled Plates and they act like I am faking. Let alone the fact I have Steel Braces on my Knees and walk with a Dam cane. Sorry for the Rambling guys. Did not mean to bother this Forum