Treebore
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but I do doubt it.
As some of you may know, and others definitely do not, we have been fighting the Veterans Administration for going on 3 years now. This is over my wife and her service connected disability with the US Army.
Yesterday we finally got a call from the VA to come into Tucson (A 100+ mile trip, one way) and talk about her specific condition, called POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachacardia Syndrome). For the first time in 3 years they finally want to actually talk about what keeps her from driving, from working, from being able to do much of anything. What has a 10% chance of killing her each year. They finally want to talk about what makes her, according to the VA's own guidelines, a 100% disabled veteran.
I doubt they will finally follow their own rules and guidelines after this meeting, but they could. They can render a decision within 60 days of this meeting that will end the financial hardships my family has been enduring these last few years. They can make it so we have plenty of money to buy food, new clothes, feed our animals, replace our 14 year old Van with a newer and more economical vehicle, and allow us to buy all the gaming material we want to buy when we want to buy it, to subscribe to Astronomy magazine for my youngest son, to get all the art supplies my daughter wants for her art work, to have a good Christmas (even though we have successfully struggled to have good ones the past two years), to have nice birthdays, to no longer have to do without. Or at least to not have to do without nearly as often.
Intellectually I do not believe the VA will do this, but I have to hope. I hope they will do what they are supposed to do rather than what they have been doing. I hope they will finally give my wife the compensation she is entitled to. I doubt they will, I doubt we will receive justice until we go to the Judge level of appeal, but I have to hope. I have to hope this Christmas will be the kind of Christmas my parents gave me so often when I was a kid.
The struggling to financially survive, to not have to use credit cards to make end smeet, to struggle month after month, year after year, is wearing me down. So I have to hope, even though I do not believe, that this will finally be the end of the struggle.
*copied and pasted from another board, so sorry if you read it twice.
As some of you may know, and others definitely do not, we have been fighting the Veterans Administration for going on 3 years now. This is over my wife and her service connected disability with the US Army.
Yesterday we finally got a call from the VA to come into Tucson (A 100+ mile trip, one way) and talk about her specific condition, called POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachacardia Syndrome). For the first time in 3 years they finally want to actually talk about what keeps her from driving, from working, from being able to do much of anything. What has a 10% chance of killing her each year. They finally want to talk about what makes her, according to the VA's own guidelines, a 100% disabled veteran.
I doubt they will finally follow their own rules and guidelines after this meeting, but they could. They can render a decision within 60 days of this meeting that will end the financial hardships my family has been enduring these last few years. They can make it so we have plenty of money to buy food, new clothes, feed our animals, replace our 14 year old Van with a newer and more economical vehicle, and allow us to buy all the gaming material we want to buy when we want to buy it, to subscribe to Astronomy magazine for my youngest son, to get all the art supplies my daughter wants for her art work, to have a good Christmas (even though we have successfully struggled to have good ones the past two years), to have nice birthdays, to no longer have to do without. Or at least to not have to do without nearly as often.
Intellectually I do not believe the VA will do this, but I have to hope. I hope they will do what they are supposed to do rather than what they have been doing. I hope they will finally give my wife the compensation she is entitled to. I doubt they will, I doubt we will receive justice until we go to the Judge level of appeal, but I have to hope. I have to hope this Christmas will be the kind of Christmas my parents gave me so often when I was a kid.
The struggling to financially survive, to not have to use credit cards to make end smeet, to struggle month after month, year after year, is wearing me down. So I have to hope, even though I do not believe, that this will finally be the end of the struggle.
*copied and pasted from another board, so sorry if you read it twice.
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