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auenone
Greetings (not to be confused with the army in the 60's),
I have a 40% combined disability rating with the VA for ptsd, shoulder and right knee from an explosion in Vietnam in 1969. I just had a piece of shrapnel removed from my heel from the ambush and was wondering if I should claim it. It probably won't do anything for the % disability and it is healing.
My other question is that I have cervical spondylosis "pretty bad" from an x-ray in 2009 with an ossific fragment posterior to something. I haven't seen the latest x-ray report from this week (it isn't posted yet on myhealthevet, yet) but my NP said it has progressed. I was in jump school and was picked first to demonstrate a PLF off the 4 foot platform and my heel hit the edge and did a front cannonball and landed on my head with two distinct pops in my neck. Being 19 at the time and considering myself bulletproof, I didn't report it. In the ambush, myself and my squad leader were launched about 15 feet from where we were walking. Is there enough evidence from my previous disability rating to apply it to my neck? I was a distance runner in HS and never played contact sports and have never been in an auto accident.
Will probably file with the DAV but would like some input from anyone.
Thank you.
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