Posted on Dec 27, 2017
Should Veterans feel bad about being awarded and receiving VA disability compensation for non-combat related injuries?
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If it happened in the line of duty No guilt at all . if it happened from speeding down the road on your motorcycle a little . If it happened after you got out a lot .
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All my injuries happened on active duty. It is not my fault the VA has taken decades to address them. After all they said I was malingering a broken neck for 27 years a broken back for 19 A hiatal hernia which they diagnosed in 1996 and will finally operate on in January. As well as all the tumors for exposure to radiation. The VA was manned until recently by a bag of dicks.
Imagine living in a wheel chair with a broken neck and a broken back because a bunch of douche kits cannot diagnose a freekin broken neck and back and instead diagnose it a ALS???
Imagine living in a wheel chair with a broken neck and a broken back because a bunch of douche kits cannot diagnose a freekin broken neck and back and instead diagnose it a ALS???
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SGT (Join to see)
CPO Dan Wiberg - I don't know how to answer that. My best advice would be for you to get with a Veterans service officer. They have the resources most of us don't.
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CPO Dan Wiberg
It has been my experience since retiring in 1996 only one Veterans Service officer was worthy and he died in a botched VA operation. I am listed at 240% cumulative. Yet it has taken multiple decades to get proper care.
Put out of the service because of the broken neck and back. Have a percentage for a hiatal hernia since 1996 and then having it denied as existing in 97 and 99. January will be 22 years and it is finally beng addressed because a PA actually read my records.
Imagine being diagnosed with ALS in 2002 and given "End of Life" counseling in 2005 asked to sign a "Do Not Resuscitate" waiver and being asked if I felt I was a burden on my family or my country. then in 2014 being recognized as the "longest living veteran with ALS" OR they were wrong. That was the year I saw a real doctor from the medical university and was asked, "Tell me about this terrible accident you were in." In 1986 I was in an accident of all things at a Naval Safety Training Course. Went to the Naval hospital and Xrayed then told I was fine, get back to work. Served 9 years active with a broken neck. In December the MUSC doctor fused 4 of my vertebrae and I grew an inch and went off pain meds on day 3. He said that they all needed done but that wad all they could do. Meanwhile when doing xrays to find a broken Heparin needle in my abdomen they got a clear image on my lumbar showing l4 a half inch off to the right. That fall I had L3/4/5 fused and within 2 months was out of a wheel chair I had been in for 17 years. I also grew another inch.
I lost a third of my life in a wheel chair a permanent member of the Paralyzed Veterans Association since 1996 and denied treatment because of immoral unethical and total idiot VA doctors. I am the guy people talk about when it cones to poor VA medical care. Oh and believe me there is plenty more misdiagnoses - over a dozen with associated treatments and denial the conditions I was treated for even existed. One time they set me up with an appointment for some really weird testing at the Medical University and I went through it then the VA denied sending me there and I was billed. The cost taken out of my tax refunds.
Told I had COPD for 3 years and given treatments for it. Then denied it even existed. Had refulx meds reduced by half in 2010 and the reflux came back permanently damaging my pyloric valve. Now I cannot bend over without acid washing my esophagus.
Told I had Barretts Esophagus in 1996 and then had it denied for the next 20 years. Un monitored. And there is more.
Put out of the service because of the broken neck and back. Have a percentage for a hiatal hernia since 1996 and then having it denied as existing in 97 and 99. January will be 22 years and it is finally beng addressed because a PA actually read my records.
Imagine being diagnosed with ALS in 2002 and given "End of Life" counseling in 2005 asked to sign a "Do Not Resuscitate" waiver and being asked if I felt I was a burden on my family or my country. then in 2014 being recognized as the "longest living veteran with ALS" OR they were wrong. That was the year I saw a real doctor from the medical university and was asked, "Tell me about this terrible accident you were in." In 1986 I was in an accident of all things at a Naval Safety Training Course. Went to the Naval hospital and Xrayed then told I was fine, get back to work. Served 9 years active with a broken neck. In December the MUSC doctor fused 4 of my vertebrae and I grew an inch and went off pain meds on day 3. He said that they all needed done but that wad all they could do. Meanwhile when doing xrays to find a broken Heparin needle in my abdomen they got a clear image on my lumbar showing l4 a half inch off to the right. That fall I had L3/4/5 fused and within 2 months was out of a wheel chair I had been in for 17 years. I also grew another inch.
I lost a third of my life in a wheel chair a permanent member of the Paralyzed Veterans Association since 1996 and denied treatment because of immoral unethical and total idiot VA doctors. I am the guy people talk about when it cones to poor VA medical care. Oh and believe me there is plenty more misdiagnoses - over a dozen with associated treatments and denial the conditions I was treated for even existed. One time they set me up with an appointment for some really weird testing at the Medical University and I went through it then the VA denied sending me there and I was billed. The cost taken out of my tax refunds.
Told I had COPD for 3 years and given treatments for it. Then denied it even existed. Had refulx meds reduced by half in 2010 and the reflux came back permanently damaging my pyloric valve. Now I cannot bend over without acid washing my esophagus.
Told I had Barretts Esophagus in 1996 and then had it denied for the next 20 years. Un monitored. And there is more.
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CPO Dan Wiberg
So here it is a month after the stomach operation in January. I still have unhealed wounds because the doctor failed in properly stitching 5 out of 6. As a secondary problem they also broke my prostate by inflating the catheter inside the prostate. They call it "mechanical damage" but it also caused a urinary tract infection. Then it took a week to get the antibiotics to treat it.
Then they tried to prescribe finasteride which, IN MY RECORDS already shows it caused me pericarditis and prostate function to fail.
I was the one who told the VA "Finasteride" causes pericarditis and that was known in 1986. These people do not even read our records.
Then they tried to prescribe finasteride which, IN MY RECORDS already shows it caused me pericarditis and prostate function to fail.
I was the one who told the VA "Finasteride" causes pericarditis and that was known in 1986. These people do not even read our records.
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10% here, for hearing loss. 3 threshold shifts during my 20 years in the Navy. Yes, shipboard life is noisy.
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NO! If it's service related then they should be compensated. You can't file a lawsuit (generally speaking) for employer related injuries and that's one reason you receive VA compensation. Now all the fakers, primarily PTSD should be ashamed of themselves. I know a few and it pisses me off.
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No. I’m 100% VA for various non-combat related injuries. I’m also rated 100% from SSDI and finally I receive 25 year retirement from active duty. I don’t say I earned these ailments. I’d much rather be working, fishing, hunting, pretty much everything I was involved with prior to falling twice.
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I ended up being declared IU by the VA. No one talks about the social interaction that is lost because of an inability to work, or the loss of the intrinsic value of feeling like you are contributing to society or the feeling you get from putting in a good day's work and being appreciated for your contribution. After I got back, I earned both a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree, with the expectation that I would be able to contribute more. PTSD robbed me of that. I didn't ask for it, didn't want it, and if it was up to me, I would still be working and contributing. A lot of people dont talk about what it does to your pride after putting in all that work. It kind of feels like you get crumpled up like a piece of trash and thrown to the side of the road, because you can't operate at the level you once did. After awhile. it's almost like wanting to give up because everyone else used you up and gave up on you.
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That is one of the most succinct answers I have heard about PTSD. Whether you know it or not, there are people who value your service. SSG Ricky Findley
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SFC William Stephens A. Jr., 3 MSM, JSCM
SSG= you try to read my book about PTSD and it is very short and to the point you can get on Amazon really cheap. I did this for the veterans and I wish I could just give you one but I can\t you me go through the same shit everyday. Hell I almost lost my government job because of yelling at someone in the office.
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I think you should deserve disability if its military related.
SSG MARK FRANZEN
USA VET
SSG MARK FRANZEN
USA VET
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I feel that as a Veteran we also served and should get the entitlements as my wife says if you wore a uniform you deserve the benefits
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