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Toxic Burn Pits Cost Vets Their Health

27 July 2015

"The flames were often colored blue or green from the hazardous chemicals that were put in the surface burn pit.

The smoke from the pit also turned a thick black or white depending on what was being burned. The smell from the pit was often of plastic or chemicals burning and was extremely noxious.

The smoke from the enormous burn pit close to Camp Cropper and Camp Victory was often so thick it filled the nearby living quarters with smoke and haze."

http://m.military.com/daily-news/2015/07/27/ailing-vets-sue-say-toxic-burn-pits-cost-them-their-health.html

So the Seattle VA would not let a female veteran 100% SC be transferred from their care to go to the university of Washington medical center after it was found out she has a serious infection of her surgically placed port that is used to give her medication. It was found out and was told yesterday by their neurology attending that they would not consult with her specialist for my mitochondrial diseases before they treated her or performed the now urgent need to remove the port surgically due to it becoming infected while in their care. With her severely degraded condition from a month of hospitalization and they refusing to follow the specialist directions on how to care for her, her husband and she decided they could not allow them to treat her any futher and we again requested they transfer her here to the UW hospital ( we were originally sent to Seattle VA to be transferred to the UW for a chance of meeting up with the only specialist in Washington for metabolic and mitochondrial diseases to stabilize her so she can have a quality life rather then homebound and bedridden) well they denied her the right to leave so we demanded to be transferred and they said it would only be against medical advice. Theydemanded that they be allowed to leave if they would not do a direct transfer. It came down to them telling them that they could not call an ambulance to come remove her from the facility so they signed out AMA and with no help from any staff her husband bundled hrr up and grabbed her service dog and wheeled her out in her own wheelchair to the outside of the hospital were they had to leave her and her service dog to run get the car to drive them off the VA property because they would not allow them to dial 911 and told them they had to be off campus or she would just be returned to the VA through their ER. So she was sitting just outside the VA ER in the darkness at around eight at night waiting for her husband to come with the car all alone with just her service dog for protection and care. Her husband was able to get back with the car in 10-15 minutes and grabbed her the dog and all their stuff and drove her just a few blocks off the campus and pulled over to call 911. Because she was so sick and frail and they are not from Seattle this was the only safe way to get her transportation to the UW hospital for treatment. They were met by and ambulance within 3 to 5 minutes by the fire department and AMR who took them directly to the hospital of their choice (just before they left the room at the VA the attending neurologist had called the nurse and said that the ER at UW hospital was full and we would not be taken there by ambulance so we should just stay there at the VA) . While she was in the AMR ambulance she asked the paramedic if it was true that the UW ER was turning away patients and he immediately called the UW hospital and was told that they had plenty of rooms and no the ER was not closed to incoming patients. When they arrived they were immediately put in a room and they began to treat and care for her. They listened to her husband about her conditions and they provided our specialist notes and directives and they began appropriate treatment. She doesn't remember much else as she is still so sick but the care here is so much better and her husband is not scared for her now that they are both doing better the next morning. They have escaped the clutches of VA and survived! So we will update you all in the coming hours and days but for now she is safe at the University of Washington Hospital. Thank you all for your prayers and keeping the pressure on the VA by making their story go viral. Remember if they can do this to her think of what has been and is still being done to our veteran sisters and brothers around the country in the VA hospital system. Pray for them all. Over and out for now. A female veteran 100% disabled veteran.