Old injuries and wounds? If so, sorry to hear of that...but growing old, I guess, beats the alternative...
And if the VA is helping, then that could be a positive aspect.
Some guys still either slip through the cracks, or else the process seem to run then off onto a siding (siding, like-- railroad siding) leaving them partially, or mostly ignored.
Nam wounds, damages to shoulders, knee, and back/neck. Surgeries on knee that has to be replaced soon, twice on lower back with fusion of blown out disks that Army doctors always told me “we can see nothing wrong with your back.” (I sent you a FReep mail with more).