Healthy Into Basic, Sick After Injections, Discharged An Then Has Cancer Two Weeks After. Eligible For Benefits?

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Need to know if my friends son who joined Army, went through boot camp but lost his job do to class cancelation an didn't want to be infrantry so he opted to get out of boot camp an enlist later when his job came up again. But he got sick while in boot camp with throat an sickness, weakness, while he was in an after he received his shot series an was on light duty till he was discharged a couple of weeks later.

After he got out a week or two later he was feeling really sick again an went to doctor because his neck was starting to swell up. Doctor diagnosed it as thyroid inflammation. Stated that sometimes one of the shots they give can cause a thyroid inflammation. Doctor recommend surgery to remove thyroid. Between that day an scheduled surgery day his neck swelled up so bad it cut off his breathing an he had to be put on a ventilator at hospital. They gave him drugs to bring swelling down so they could do surgery. A couple days later swelling went down just enough an they took him to do operation.

Once they opened up his neck they realized that it wasn't his thyroid but a cancerous growth around his thyroid. They took a biopsy an it came back as Non-Hotchkiss Lymphoma. He had to start chemotherapy right away to start fighting the cancer. After surgery his neck swelled up again within 24 hrs an he had to be put on ventilator again.

Once they got the cancer diagnosis back the next day they could start the right chemo treatment to fight the cancer. Once the first dose was administered his swelling went down in two days so that he could be taken off the ventilator as the chemo was working an bringing down the swelling an killing the cancer from growing.

He was discharged a week later, an now has to do a full series of chemo to fight it.

Went he went into the Military he was a healthy kid. State wrestling champion, football champion, an just a healthy super fit kid. His first weeks in the military he aced the 2 mile run with a 11:30 time, did all the pushups and sit-ups that were required to pass basic training. But after he received the shot series is when he started to fill sick and an was put on light duty an meds. It was just after the shot series he learned his job in the Army was canceled an the only job open was infantry. He refused the infantry job an opted to cancel boot camp an then try again for his job next year or another job that he wanted at some point later.

My thought was since it started in basic, maybe because of a reaction to the shots maybe not, but either way, it started while he was already several weeks into boot camp he should qualify for VA treatment an disability as he is totally wiped out from taken the chemo an his parents can't afford the bills that are stacking up for his treatment.

Thanks for any help you can offer. I know when I need help for my VA disability stuff this forum was my saving grace on how to get my care an disability I was owed.

[Notorious Kelly]

Mighta been a bad dose of that voodoo injection.

Good on you for pursuing this!