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Precious Junior ... awwww!

BTW, unless your medical problems are service related, I'm not sure the VA will see you. The Air Force requires people to have Tri-Care and it's a hassle for them to make appointments. Cherokee & Storyteller aren't happy with it except at age 65 (which I'll not make) you no longer pay premiums.

I hope you are feeling better and receive the medical attention you need. I will pray for you.

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Mmm-hmmm. There's an AF base/hospital a couple of hour away, but there's a huge retirement community in its catchment area.
No way we can afford the copays for some of the tests I may need - guess if all else fails, I can just bump along until whateverthisis lands me in the ER ...

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Are you looking to get attached to his retirement benifits, or start off on a new track with your own?

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Whatever works. I'm covered by TriCAre, of course (such as THAT is) but right now we can't even afford the copays for that, as far as extensive testing goes. The local clinic advised starting by applying as a veteran, since I'm a girl and we are low-income.
All required testing, including MRIs, are available at the VA hospital, about an hour and a half away from us here...
Suggestions for any good tips and tricks for approval gratefully accepted!

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My VA experience begain and ended on the same day, many some years ago.
Arriving at the VA hospital to begain my claim, carrying the results of the medical board determining that, due to injuries received in the line of duty, I was unfit for further military service, my medical discharge and kind letter from the President thanking me for my sacrifice. I filled out paper work, waited, filled out more paper work, and then met with a nice Doctor who told me to get my malingering self out of his hospital.
Haven't been near the VA since, but I hear things are better than they were in the late 60's early 70's.

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Mmmmmmmmmm. Military medicine was particularly good in the old days, wasn't it? Had some of the same sort of issues when I was active duty - had real physical issues, but since the treatments tried didn't work, and I wouldn't consent to surgeries that would make things WORSE, I was both malingering AND insubordinate... From everything I heard at the time, the VA was in a sad sad state at the time.

My dad had probably-Agent-Orange related cancer in the 90s, and his doctors did their very best - his 6-month prognosis lasted for more than 5 years, most of it with a good quality of life. It was Social Security that gave him a big ration of s**t.

Himself retired in 1995, has a 30% disability now (his Dr is telling him to go for re-assesment, will be higher now) and so far his experience has been good, except that the wheels of medicine grind exceeding slllooow.

I don't think my problem is a fatal one - but I would like my mind put at rest with a diagnosis, to be sure. If I'm turned down, or if I get a Dr with Head-Up-Ass Syndrome, I am even more capable of insubordination now than I ever was.

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Who knows where my cancer came from.

However, it's a good bet my late onset type II diabetes is from my senior trip to southeast asia.
But, I already get a gov. pension since I'm dying from an incurable cancer*, so there is no gain in going after VA benefits for it.

*Just because I'm still breathing four years out from the experiment doesn't change the diagnoses. No one has ever lived as long as I have, and, as you can see from my trips to NIH, it doesn't seem that the cancer is in any big hurry. My plan is to get shot after I'm 80 by some 19 year old's husband for messing around where I shouldn't be.

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Heh. You go, dude.

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