I'm not sure that this is the place for this, but the almost ridiculous security here prevents me from asking anywhere else.
I'm ETS'ing after ten years of service. I was injured in Iraq nearly 5 years ago and now I have had to have surgery to remove some chunks of memory. While doing this the doctors gave me a spinal anesthetic which they screwed up. Now I walk like egor and at a 30 degree angle. Since my ETS is right here a medical chapter was forgone.
Anyway, I have done my part 1 VA physical, given 24 x-rays, all the samples and my what is now list of issues. No doctor seems to want to actually give a label to what is wrong with my spinal cord so I have no idea what to say there. They did an MRI as well and somebody, somewhere said it was normal?
My question to all of you is this. In general what advice do you have for going through this part 2 physical? What are the right and wrong things to say? Maybe what would you have done different? Lastly, where do I stand and what do I do about the fact that nobody will fess up to the fact that my back is screwed, even though I can barely walk on my left leg and can't pick up my friggin' cat?
Obviously my back is my primary complaint and would see the highest disability(since it is). If they base my percentage on anything else to start, I am going to lose on this BIG TIME!
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Morning all,
I'm not sure that this is the place for this, but the almost ridiculous security here prevents me from asking anywhere else.
I'm ETS'ing after ten years of service. I was injured in Iraq nearly 5 years ago and now I have had to have surgery to remove some chunks of memory. While doing this the doctors gave me a spinal anesthetic which they screwed up. Now I walk like egor and at a 30 degree angle. Since my ETS is right here a medical chapter was forgone.
Anyway, I have done my part 1 VA physical, given 24 x-rays, all the samples and my what is now list of issues. No doctor seems to want to actually give a label to what is wrong with my spinal cord so I have no idea what to say there. They did an MRI as well and somebody, somewhere said it was normal?
My question to all of you is this. In general what advice do you have for going through this part 2 physical? What are the right and wrong things to say? Maybe what would you have done different? Lastly, where do I stand and what do I do about the fact that nobody will fess up to the fact that my back is screwed, even though I can barely walk on my left leg and can't pick up my friggin' cat?
Obviously my back is my primary complaint and would see the highest disability(since it is). If they base my percentage on anything else to start, I am going to lose on this BIG TIME!
Thank you all for any input and help!
Ray
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