Comments by "Rants Of A Grumpy Old Lady" (@grumpyoldlady_rants) on "Shocking truths: Senior veterans discarded u0026 forgotten?" video.

This is terrible and there is no excuse! My son received a traumatic head injury when on deployment to Iraq. His unit was in Kuwait at the time waiting to move into Iraq. My son had to be helicoptered out to a Kuwaiti hospital. When he filed for disability, he was told by the VA that they didn’t have the records and he would need to contact the hospital in Kuwait to get them. How in the world was he supposed to do that? He finally contacted one of his senators. She got things moving. My son was given a new person (I forget the title) to help him navigate the VA. Guess what, she actually found the “missing” records in the VA system. He finally got his disability after fighting the VA for about seven years. That’s the trick. You have to keep fighting. They depend on a certain number of Vets giving up after being turned down the first time. Same with each subsequent denial. Keep fighting, Arlene and thank you for serving.
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@KARW37 I’m so sorry to hear you going through so much. Unfortunately, it seems like the VA is really good in some area and terrible in others. My best friend is a retired Vet. She was diagnosed with colon and liver cancer about six years ago. She had the colon cancer removed at a non-VA facility (had to do it in a round about way). The Portland, OR VA then took over her treatment as well as performing the surgery to remove the tumors on her liver. So far, she’s doing great.
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