Posted on 01/04/2022 5:50:43 AM PST by Norski
A guy in this position should take someone deserving, with him.
True. Advocacy can be critical, possibly why the letter and article on Lenora Thompson’s blogsite. She advocates for injured and fallen military; she has a special section following injured casualty armed forces members from Afghanistan pullout, there were 13 and then more. She is or was a Freeper, but looks like her account banned or suspended, do not know why.
VA - Veteran Assassins
needs a letter to his congresscritter perhaps
Maybe 40 years ago, I knew a man in his 60s that went to the doctor for a persistent cold. He had an X-Ray done that showed spots on his lungs. The doctor wanted to do a biopsy by he refused. He told the doctor, “I’m 67, and I’ve been smoking since I was 10. We know what is. And, I have seen too many people go into a hospital for a biopsy and never go home.” He owned an auto repair shop. He went back to work and lived another 18 months, and worked 10 of them.
A man in this position can be a very dangerous commodity. He has nothing left to lose.
“The next chapter in this VA debacle is hard to believe.”
No, it’s not. You should read my “VA” diary and then you would ask yourself how has their rating gone up. They were a 3 out of 5 and that wasn’t believable. I’ll tell you how. They use all their doctors and nurses positive reviews on Facebook to determine their rating. You think their veteran surveys were anonymous, then how did they know you didn’t send it in and sent you a reminder. It’s a rigged rating system, simple as that.
Well...I have worked closely with men who had prostate cancer, and I had some who came in with prostate cancer metastases to bone, but...ten years later, they came back and we would monitor the progress. There were treatments to try to knock down the bone mets and increase comfort (Sr-89 which gets absorbed in the mets and kills them a bit) but it has been so long I don’t remember how well that worked.
Prostate cancer in a younger man (less than 60) is obviously a different ball of wax. Much more deadly.
It is good to keep in mind a particular person’s experience may not be emblematic of the whole, but...it does sound like the left hand isn’t talking to the right hand at some level.
Sigh. I guess we all have to encounter this to some degree as we dive deeper into the healthcare environment as we get older.
I know. Of all citizens, the ones we task to go fight our wars and risk losing their lives, sometimes before they are old enough to drink or had the opportunity to make love to a woman, they shouldn’t have to worry about any of this stuff as they get older.
My wife is after me to find out what I am eligible for at the VA as someone who served a four year enlistment (since it sounds like some things are being made available) but I am loathe to do that.
I think it should be only for people who were in combat, were injured in service, or retired. It feels like it would be stealing...to me, at least.
Those who served active duty in the military should have THE SAME healthcare that Senators and Congressmen receive..!!
I wish you all the best! Take care.
Certainly a pleasant surprise to see this article from
Ms. Thompson, continuing to help her fellow citizens.
The headline gave reason to think veteran Blaze was being
disqualified as he had not been vaccinated. Incorrect assumption on my part. Found, after reading further, the denial of treatment is the continuation of government continuing to flex its muscles, their normal daily routine.
FR has crossed paths with Ms. Thompson before, at the time of *Biden’s inauguration*. It’s good to see her name on the
board once again. Always encouraging to meet a fellow patriot, even more so, greeting him once again.
LENORA THOMPSON:
https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:lenorathompson/index?brevity=full;tab=comments
I think that he needs some expert organizational advice on composing his letters to his Senator/Representative. The format and tone in which he provided his trail of experience, while heartbreaking, is difficult to follow and process. In order for whoever at his representative’s office is assigned to deal with this, it needs strong point identifiers and clear failures bullet-pointed (along with a timeline that is clear), if necessary.
My husband eas so fortunate to have all of his removed during surgery. He was 50, and it was aggressive.
My nephew-in-laws, dad was not so gortunate and he passed away quickly. I’m thinking he was in his early 60s.
My niece and her husband both list their dads to cancer. Their kids don’t have any granddads.
Cancer sucks!
You have that right. Cancer does suck immaculate.
It's political. The leftist administration is aware that the large majority of veterans qualify as right-wing subversives and will withhold treatment whenever they feel they can get away with it.
I hadn’t thought of it in that way. It is sad that we would even be able to entertain that as a possible cause.
Senators and Congressmen should be limited to the same level of healthcare available to the lowest citizen on the totem pole. The current level of Congressional healthcare should be afforded to veterans.
I've been saying this for years: Follow the money.
There will never be a cure for heart disease or cancer. If they cure the patient, the patient no longer requires their services. They'd prefer to keep treating the condition and collecting the payments for doing so.
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