Groundbreaking Post

So welcome to my mind. I mean blog. Please leave a comment. I'm gonna go over to Vetsbenefits.org and check in. Be right back. Don't fret you'll catch up in no time. Be up to speed as they say. I wish I could pin 📌.

Just a short comment about my claim I've been talking about on here. At issue is whether it is at least as likely as not that my present condition, whatever it may be called at the time, is related to service. Did it begin in service? Well, since I didn't have it when I was inducted in 1986 and wasn't diagnosed with it until 2022 and I got out in 1998, the onset of the disorder must have been in the three years between 1999 and 2022 due to the presumption rule. Specifically psychosis. So VA contends that the condition for which I am now seeking service connection actually began during those three years. that the first time I exhibited signs or experienced symptoms of the claimed condition was between 1999 and 2002, when I was initially and officially diagnosed with a mental infirmity. Actually, manic-depression was diagnosed in April, 2003 at the VA. But that's not the name of the game here sorta shit here in my opining. Same condition, different name. So look to the symptoms, which is what I'm claiming versus the actual name of it. That's why a whole bunch of Veterans got cheated out of benefits due to PTSD but that's another time's writing. Originally called War Neuroses, then Shell Shock, Soldier's Heart, Something Else, now Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Anyway, I just want to clear the air for the record that no matter who says what about when and who, the fact still remains that the prodromal symptoms that began, according to the record, are related to those which I experience now. I'm not a doctor nor am I diagnosing anything, I'm simply asserting that to a fact. Establishing that as such in VA's eyes is something else entirely. To be clear, I am not claiming PTSD or anything else so I'll finish by saying right now I'm writing as if Im writing to the rater. For context. But before going forth, I'm gonna take a timeout to review what I wrote before I publish it anywhere. All I was tryna do was to prove those two were related, that's all. Why am I being sent to the back of the line again on this issue? Ciao.

That's from Vetsbenefits.org, a forum. 

So the VA Machinery spit out a "confirm and continue" denial. That's the premise. Now, I'm facing more than a few options going forward. I could ask that a Decision Review Officer (DRO) take a fresh look at the claim by way of a Higher Level Review. This is known as a Decision Review Request. And the proper form is a VA Form 21-0996. 

Or, I may choose to file a second Supplemental Review. The other type of "DRR." That's a 21-0995 by the way. Now, let's go back in time to better get it. To better understand. 

Circa 2003, I made a claim to the Department of Veterans Affairs for service connection of a psychiatric disability. In short, agency decision makers rejected my claim because there was no evidence showing the condition claimed was "related" to service. They sent me two letters in 2003 requesting I send them evidence to support my contention that my present condition is related to service. As of March 3, 2005, no evidence had been received. So they denied my claim. I didn't appeal that decision until November 14, 2023, some twenty years later. Cut!

Raters process so many claims repetitively day I and day out. Errors happen. Perhaps I'm too far under the hood here, but that's when  Kimball YouTube video ends and another one starts. It's Matthew Hill of Florida. Of Hill and Ponton. A legal firm reprsenting veterans. How to get weight gain connected to depression and sleep apnea. But I missed the answer. He answers questions from a March 31, 2023 Livestream. 

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Compensation and Pension Examinations ❓.

Loss of Use of Organ. SMC-K. About $350 on addition to your rated compensation. 

Evidence of Presumptive condition. 

Allergic Rhinitis. 

Thoughts of that creek in Goodlettsville, Tennessee intrude. And sitting in the back of the Cop cruiser. The VA hospital said they had no record of me and routed me through Skyline Medical Center. 

I had been in the system for seven years. Just goes to show you that unbelievable shit happens. I had Medicare but there's a copay and I was gonna stay so the bill would be kyna steep at 20% as my responsibility. I have no idea how that happened and never will pry. Must've been my VA ID card because all I had besides that was my passport but I didn't have that on me. Social security numbers aren't on those forms of id and I don't remember if I gave him my SSN or not. Don't think so. The house I was living in had belonged to Waylon Jennings at one point in the past. When he was touring in a smallish motorhome. The concrete beside the place was all crumbly and cracked. 

Behind the house hung two cutoff ropes hanging from a tree over a small creek. Remnants of a swing. I'll stop there but I'm not making this shit up, just recalling it to put it in writing. Part of my memoirs. Maybe people will read my writings more after I die or something or am I inadvertently sounding like a damn martyr. Maybe so. 

Candice 1998 Huhala decided not to get VA benefits for toxic exposure or something.

Tony next. Thanks Matthew for his 100% P&T

Nick just completed a C&P Exam and Rater ignored his opinion for PTSD and Stressor.

There's a lot of deja Vu lol.

Explain the SMC Steps.

1998. Candice. Story about Goodlettsville and what I imagined her doing to me for being such a jerk. More in the paid version lol.

VA Form 21-8940 is for IU.

Trend in VA is to keep repeating C&P Exams. 3 or more sometimes. Sounds like develop to deny to me. Or HLR's are being ...more in paid version

Difference of opinion and duty to assist Errors as result of HLR's. Schedule new exams. In my case, paid version only..