SGT Hector Rojas, AIGA, SHA 836205 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My wife (who lives with me and is enrolled in EFMP) has a long standing heart condition and a mild to severe pulmonary insufficiency. <br />She suffered a heart attack 6 weeks ago, she was treated and released, as a result, now she has even more trouble walking or even going up/down stairs just to get in/out of the house or any facility with steps.<br /><br />We PCS'ed to Fort Carson in January of this year, and her condition has declined sharply since.<br /><br />In all honesty, the elevation of Fort Carson was not something we considered/pondered when we made the decision to request it last year.<br /><br />Now, in retrospect, it was a mistake. While the Army Hospital is taking care of the basics (and I mean basic stuff), every time she has had to go to the ER for one reason or another related to her ailments, they either send her to a civilian hospital or flat out tell her to drive herself directly there/wait for the civilian hospital ambulance (which is more than 30 minutes from where we live)<br /><br />So it has come to considering a request for compassionate reassignment to any post that is NOT at 5500 ft. ASL.<br /><br />AR 600-8-11 is vague when it comes to a family member living WITH the soldier having medical issues that could be alleviated by being elsewhere. <br /><br />Thoughts, suggestions, ideas? 2015-07-22T21:48:34-04:00 SGT Hector Rojas, AIGA, SHA 836205

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My wife (who lives with me and is enrolled in EFMP) has a long standing heart condition and a mild to severe pulmonary insufficiency. <br />She suffered a heart attack 6 weeks ago, she was treated and released, as a result, now she has even more trouble walking or even going up/down stairs just to get in/out of the house or any facility with steps.<br /><br />We PCS'ed to Fort Carson in January of this year, and her condition has declined sharply since.<br /><br />In all honesty, the elevation of Fort Carson was not something we considered/pondered when we made the decision to request it last year.<br /><br />Now, in retrospect, it was a mistake. While the Army Hospital is taking care of the basics (and I mean basic stuff), every time she has had to go to the ER for one reason or another related to her ailments, they either send her to a civilian hospital or flat out tell her to drive herself directly there/wait for the civilian hospital ambulance (which is more than 30 minutes from where we live)<br /><br />So it has come to considering a request for compassionate reassignment to any post that is NOT at 5500 ft. ASL.<br /><br />AR 600-8-11 is vague when it comes to a family member living WITH the soldier having medical issues that could be alleviated by being elsewhere. <br /><br />Thoughts, suggestions, ideas?

2015-07-22T21:48:34-04:00 2015-07-22T21:48:34-04:00 COL Charles Williams 836423

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="15983" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/15983-sgt-hector-rojas-aiga-sha">SGT Hector Rojas, AIGA, SHA</a> Do whatever is best for your wife, if that means moving..

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