Agent Orange letter

[Berta]

I caught this letter to the editor of a newspaper this AM, in my Google AO Nehmer alerts:

http://www.therepublic.com/view/local_story/Letter-Veterans-urged-to-check_1444183037

Although I wish the actual AO presumptives were in the letter, it was very sad to see that even a VA rep didnt seem to know what "Nehmer" was....

( my former rep didnt in 2003)

I agree that there are probably MANY Vietnam vets with AO presumptives who still do not even know they could file a claim.

And maybe many of them are dead by now, and their survivors didnt know about the presumptives at all.

Sad.        Hopefully some affected Vietnam vets will read her letter to the editor.

 

 

[Berta]

I was answering dkemp's post...hard to follow threads when hijacks occur.

If the daughter was a dependent when this veteran died, the DIC award would have contained any retro DIC for the daughter, which is paid to the surviving spouse.It shows up on the audit form if they enclose one.

As I recall ,VA paid me DIC for my daughter ,as retro but I had to send them proof of high school attendance until she graduated.

If the question is for claiming retro Chap 35, that is different.

We just don't have enough info here to guess what the daughter is seeking.

BTW, when I worked at a vet center in the 1980s many vets were quick to tell me they were

"certified" as crazy...because they had PTSD and received comp for it.

Of course this was always a joke. I have yet to ever meet any PTSD vet who is crazy....and

most are by far smarter than some of the VA people we deal with.

[FormerMember]

Sounds like he got hung up in Eugene Haas' case with Blue Water Navy initially and they hung him out to die. When the new ship's lists came out, I'm betting he qualified via that and it explains why his spouse finally prevailed on DIC. Beverly Nehmer did us all a tremendous favor. 

[Chuck75]

On 10/9/2015 at 9:37 PM, Buck52 said:

 I agree with Berta also...

Every veteran thats been exposed to AO should get into the AO Registry.

I believe there's more disease that AO causes,  more and different diseases  than what there letting us know about  and could be secondary to a disease that we already have.

jmo

 

..............Buck

"I believe there's more disease that AO causes"

Of course there are!  Ask any non VA endocrinologist for starters! 

Besides that, many insurance companies and Medicare did not want to pay for genetic testing.

 

Edited January 24, 2016 by Chuck75

[Buck52]

Reason I believe that,

The VA diagnosed me with Pernicious anemia, years ago,  I was in my late 30's and been out of the service for  19-20 or so years  and all of a sudden I stated feeling a shock go through my body when I would make a certain move or get out of a car  ect,,ect,, a tingling in my hands/and when I would bend my head down a shock would go through my body

I figured I 'd pulled a nerve or something like that, then it got worse as weeks went by and my feet started to swell and feel hot very hot I had to run cold water over them to relieve the pain , my spouse was worried I might have some heart problems  so I went check in at VAMC they run some test on me and could not find what was wrong one of the Dr's ordered a bone marrow biopsy,.

As I understand it from the Dr;s

They did an MRI prior and found I had no intrinsic -factor, that's the part in your stomach that reaches out and puts your B-12 Into your blood stream, They said my was not there  , they ask me questions about if I drink a lot ...I said no & checked me for forms of cancers''leukemia''that was ruled out thank God,.

 because the only medical reason for someone to lose the intrinsic-factor was alcohol abuse and a form of leukemia , they never gave me an answer as why I lost mine, what they did was load me up on B12 injections everyday for the next 30 days  and got my B-12 level back up, and my symptoms went away  and I now need to take two B12 Injection twice a month,   I never abuse alcohol and I don't have leukemia  but there's been that unknow fact rather or not AO Caused this problem  VA says No.

 

................Buck