I'm praying for ya, man. seriously praying.
Also pray that it won't take over 30 years to get around to acknowledging that GWS is treatable and compensable or syndrome or disease like it was with us VN vets and the poisonous dioxins in Agent Orange that poisioned many of us.
Seems that the govt likes to drag their feet as long as it can in hopes that the disease kills off a significant portion of those afflicted to reduce its responsibility and thus their pay out$ to the vets it owes just-due. Disgusting and shameful bureaucrats.
I served in the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf on the USS Nimitz during the Gulf War. I spent months breathing the fumes of burning oil wells and burning jet exhaust.
I was called to active duty for Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and spent months overseas in combat zones, as recently as March 2005.
My joints are stiff, my back hurts often, and I'm not as limber as I was when I was 20 years old. The big question in my mind: Do I suffer from GWS or am I just feeling the normal effects of age? I tend to think that I am normal and that it's just an age related issue, so I suppress the desire to feel like a victim. Maybe that's the conservative in me?