Hearing Coming Up

[Dean]

I got a letter the other day and was told that I have a hering in about 3 weeks. I do not know what is on my docket at all. I have so many things filed, I do not even know whatthings that the hearing is about. I have went through this before. It sux how they do not tell you in the letter that the hearing is about. When I call the idiots in Atlanta they tell me that they do not know. The person acted like it was a problem to just answer the phone. I finally found out what was on there but I can't count on her to be correct since she was trying to get me off of the phone every time she got finished with a sentence. I was writing this as I was on the phone.

I am thinking that Depression will be on the docket along with other things that I have filed. I have been trying to get service connected for depression for a long time now. The only way that I think that I can get them to do this is to explain to them that the depression is secondary. I have tried to get every doctor to put that in my records. I have been denied for this even though I gave them the record years ago to look at that this doctor put this on. Now I have to find that 1 paper in about 5 boxes of my files. I am going to try to get a copy of that record from the V.A. but it was years ago and the doctor is gone now.

If anyone has any idea's that can help me please send me an e-mail. I am going to be up to my neck in paperwork for the next couple of weeks. Thanks in advance.

[Objee]

Are you doing this for me?

If you'll send me your "laundry list" and how you see one symptom relating

to another, I will. Will need a fax address for you.

Email me at zedaassn@sbcglobal.net with your list andd we'll do it.

Ralph

[Dean]

(((If you'll send me your "laundry list" and how you see one symptom relating

to another, I will. Will need a fax address for you.

Email me at zedaassn@sbcglobal.net with your list andd we'll do it.))))

Ralph,

Thanks for offering all of your help. You can start with the file that I uploaded to this post. I have a lot of information on my computer that I have collected. I have so many records to go through that it is going to be hard to organize all of this in time for my hearing.

I stated this before and I will state it again, especially since I have found out that this is a hearing that I just asked for on October the 18th of last year. "I have been caught with my pants off and I have not found them yet." I need all of the help that I can get.

Berta,

I just got off of the phone with the Department of Veteran Services in Atlanta. He told me that this is a hearing to go over the same information that I went over just a little over a year ago. He was as suprised as I was that they gave me another hearing, just because I asked for it. He said that it usually takes around another year from now to get another hearing like this. He has even read my 6 volumns of my C-File. Yes my C-File is 6 Volumns. Can you imagine the work that he is going to have to do himself, to get prepared for this hearing? So you can go over the case that you looked up and ask me more questions about it. I am trying to get things in order by going through my records. I am finding things that I forgot I had.

Ralph,

You are correct about me getting everything in an outline form. My case worker needs me to get this to him in an outline form for him to look at. Are you a representative? If you do not want to answer that here you do not have to. I know of a couple of claims representatives that are on this site and I would never point them out in the open. Berta gets enough questions without being a representative. She knows enough to be a representative but dedicates every day of her life for the past 8 to 10 years on here helping veterans. She is a dear friend and a good Fambly member to this board. Anyway, I will keep some of the stuff short on here that does not pertain to my case. I hope that T-bird will put this somewhere that other veterans can find our post on how to prepare for a hearing properly. It would be nice id we could get some of the other people on here like Allen Opie and Lawerence L. to join in on the conversation. When I win this case with the help of this board, I plan on compensating T-Bird to keep this board going another 10 years and even longer. I neglected to do this the last time that I won my case. I was planning on doing that, but I was trying to invest my money into something to be able to do more. It was also around a bad time when she was getting a lot of problems about getting donations.

Back to my case:

I will be putting a lot of information on here in the next week. Anyone that has a similar claim might want to see some of the things that I am going to post. I have my own personal web site that I might set up to help collect information.

HEY DID YOU NOTICE THAT I MOVED UP IN RANK ON THE BOARD. :P

T-Bird ranked me higher because of the years of service that I have put into the site. That made my day, and I even have a Migrain right now.

B) Thanks Theresa B)

[Berta]

Dean-this is unusual but then again-

the hearing might help define the issues-----you will be OK with the shrink tomorrow I am sure-

and I feel others here certainly see the validness of your claim.

I am glad the family is helping you-

Dean- when I began college -3-4 years ago I picked who appeared to be the toughest Marine on the faculty-for my first prof-

I figured let him make me or break me-I had transferred my credits from a community college in NJ to a military university on line -they only had one other civilian as a military student.

Boy was he TOUGH!!!!!! He was the most difficult and perfectionist teacher I ever had-

100% was not good enough for him- (Major USMC) I had to give 150%-it was horrible!

Nevertheless- I earned high marks from him and stayed with him for many other courses.

my long point here is this------

I know you deal with a LOT! I commend you for all you manage to do and don't know how you do it- and like me- you and the men and women here develop character as long as we live- because there are often so many obstacles and challenges we have-what is here at hadit is- to me- men and women of the finest character and leadership abilities-and as old as some of us are ( I am a senior citizen)- we all still learn each day from each other and we all give back what we know.

The VA wants us to give up-at school I even saw enlisted men drop out of courses I took that were harder than they thought-

others dealing with what you do might well have given up long ago-

and you are right that others will learn from your experience.

Is this Social ? forgot where I am but - one other thing Dean-

there is a lot to be said for Keeping it simple!

Focus on only what you need to for that hearing-

I learned a lot about 5 paragraph command orders-

Keep it simple!

That is how warfare tactics become viable when men and women go into fire- and how battles are won.

Simplifying a claim can be MOST difficult -I know- but once one focuses in on what they need -

for a hearing or whatever it is- it does get easier-and when you have some confidence- the stress begins to fall away.

You will do OK tomorrow- and whatever the outcome-I know that

you can handle the next hill- there was once a day ( and years too)that you did not have any SC at all.

That day is gone because you persevered. I will say a prayer for you- that helps too in my opinion.

( :P PS It might help to find those pants for the shrink appointment!)

[Objee]

Chief Theresa,

Nope, not a representative. Just a claimant as you are.

We're all here to help each other. If my claim is where

I was told it is, my war is over.

This means that I can devote time to help other vets, spouses

and widows to get what they deserve.

T-bird had the guts and motivation to start this all off. The

least we all can do is support her courage and work to help each

other to prevail.

This is a new idea. Let's see if it adds to our knowledge base as a

working method. Dunno, but it's worth trying.

Send me your email address and we'll get started . I will need to

communicate questions to you. We'll try to meet your hearing date

and I'll be most interested to see if this helps your rep to be more

effective.

Let's get at it! I'll start with what I have; you let me know what's to

follow that I don't have. Go girl!!

Ralph

[Dean]

MMPI is out of the way. I just have to wait and see what this psychologist does with the test now. I am going to be called in to talk to her so she can go over the test results. I explained that I needed the results by next week. The test was over 500 questions and a lot about drinking, sex, and honesty. I did notice the trick questions in the test though. I kept going back and forth to make sure that I did not stumble and answer the same question a different way. They like changing words around and asking the same questions. I noticed this a lot. The other doctors have called me manipulative, and said that I did not answer questions to this test correctly before. I quess I cheat, because I pay attention to what I am doing when I take those test. I try to stay consistent so I will not look stupid. I am real curious to what this psychologist is going to say about my answers. I was told that I cheated a lie detector question test one time when I was 17. I s there something wrong with trying to be an honest person? My wife went to Sears a couple of months ago to have a battery put in our Van, I noticed $50 worth of tools left in our Van when she returned. I took the tools back to Sears and the manager gave me his card for a free oil change. I guess I really did not do that either. I am not like most people. When I feel like I have done something wrong, I get the feeling that I have cheated life, and it will come back to me. I have borrowed money from people before and then they did not come around for a while so I could not return the money. They can not beleave it when I give them the money that I borrowed a month or two before. I quess I am a paranoid person when it comes to things like that.

I have been going through and trying to sort through my records. I have gotten behind because I had to repair a leek in my tub faucet. This CPVC sux when it comes to trying to repair and end that it leaking. It took me 2 days to get the leak stopped because nothing that I bought would work. I had to make a fitting to get it to work. That took some creative thinking.

I plan on working on my records tonight and all day tomorrow. I am getting pissed at some of the things that the psycholigist and psychiatrist have put in my records. I have read some of the things to my wife. She has known me for 9 years and she told me that they evidently had me mixed up with someone else. These doctors have acted like they were hearing me talk about football while I was talking about baseball. (That was an example). There are some things that I know for a fact that I told them several times that are not in my records even once. The main thing was that I told them several times was that I felt like something was inside of my head, and that I could not explain the feeling and I wanted them to do a CAT scan to see what was wrong. I guess this whas what they meant when they said that I kept telling them several times that they would not listen to me. It was within months after I told them this when my medical doctor found my brain tumor. They did not put this in my records at all. Not even when I brought it up when my medical doctor found the tumor. I told them the next time that I was admitted about this. They just constantly put in my records that I kept telling them that they would not listen to me.

OK, I have some things to go do today. I will give an update later.

P.S. I am not a female.........

((Let's get at it! I'll start with what I have; you let me know what's to

follow that I don't have. Go girl!!))

[Objee]

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P.S. I am not a female.........

((Let's get at it! I'll start with what I have; you let me know what's to

follow that I don't have. Go girl!!))

Sorry Dean, I live near San Francisco and sometimes it's hard to tell. :P

I have a basic diagnostic tree constructed. When you get a bit more organized,

give me your historic info and I'll fill it in.

I need: Symptomatic ailments/injuries with diagnostic dates (if diagnosed).

What you see for symptoms relating to diagnoses made.

WHat you still need a firm diagnosis on.

I'll make the tree and some directions on how to use it for your SO.

(This is an offshoot of a diagnostic trend analysis format I did years ago for

the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, so it's "medically tested.")

Will send by email or fax when we're done - your choice.

Ralph