ORIGINAL: Oracus
ORIGINAL: crashcrash
ORIGINAL: Oracus
Well today I officially joined the group of VA disabled vets. I got my %results back from the VA. Is at least alittle extra fixed income that I get from 10 years of service and Combat Tour.
Kyle....I just did a C&P exam today, my first one. The examiner wasn't very happy with the Navy letting me out(retiring me) with nerve damage in my right wrist from an accident. I've got two trips to Detroit VA headquarters comming up as well for other stuff. I gotta feeling they're really NOT gonna be happy when they put a scope in my chest and see the asbestos barbs sitting in the scar tissue of my lungs. NO...I'm not having fun yet. How long did the whole process take? I've been working on it since Mar 09.[
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Yeah they are very UN-helpful some times. My biggest problem is my wounded left hip, and since the VA is contracting out most of their claim exams I get a local ''pain specialist'' who doesn't read my history, tells me its all in my head, then I get 0% for a combat wound cause the guy says'' I have normal strength and motion'' which he didn't even check. So I am very angry with that and filed a appeal.
The VA makes social security look like a bunch of amateurs when it comes to denials. I went to an audioligist this week because I filed hearing loss which I did have when I retired. Jet engines, steam turbines, and boiler roaring.....hummmm. I don't know what the results of that is as yet. When I got out of the Navy and hired into a factory, they give hearing tests and I was told then...."you got hearing loss". Yup...tell me something I don't know. I recommend if you're gonna appeal the decision, find the best doctor you can find and get an independent evaluation. That will include CT scans and the whole 9 yards. For my chest, I got the leading expert in the region who happens to teach asbestos medicine at the University Of Michigan. The VA will be hard pressed to disprove him. Don't take a knife to a gunfight....you'll loose every time. History documentation is critical from your mil-med records, especially if you had "lost time" where you couldn't do your job, placed on light duty, whatever.