I decided to try an new and different approach on the issue of Service Connection efforts.
Problem: While on active duty I never was able to get PROPER eye care and had to go off-base to get my PRISMS updated. I was a non-VA doc back in 2009 that opened the MS issue regarding my diplopia (being a neuro-muscular issue) in 2009 that led to my getting tested and formal MS dx. I have dug up what medical info I could find, even though a bit limited. So I plan to write a basic Hx/Sx time-line that relates to my documentation. I HOPE this will overcome the note in my file by one doc and EXPLAIN WHY its relevant.
-1- MY recruit med form showing I ahd developed diplopia about 1 year prior.
-2- MY med form showing I did have PRISMS Rx in my glasses at that time (backing up #1 above).
-3 Med doc showing I was sent for an eye exam at my first duty station (Pensacola Fla hot weather)
-4- Copy of Glasses Rx showing they DID NOT include PRISMS (my diplopia overlooked/ignored)
-4a not documentation but I went to Mobile Al and got new glasses, (I plan to note it but have NO documentation)
-5- While in A-School (Jax Fla) had yet another Navy eye exam and again my diplopia was ignored and glasses Rx missing needed PRISMS.
-6- After A-School I was stationed in Sanford Fla. This time did not even bother with Navy eye docs and I went to an eye doc in nearby Winter Park. I had to get much stronger PRISMS that spring. I could not get any formal documentation; However I got teased about my new very thick PRISM glasses and have a signed letter from a fellow mate, which I gave a copy to PVA and seems to have been IGNORED so far. (he included contact info and they can easily call him if needed)
-7- No documentation again but my next duty station was Albany Ga (Sanford was closed and we were moved there to a newly closed air force B52 base). I got new prism glasses again (before our Med cruse) at at a eye doc in town.
I also had other vision issues that came and went during my tour of active duty. One especially while at Pensacola where I had to have a fellow shopmate help me for a few days. I nearly rot ran over one evening by a car I did not see when crossing the street going to the USO. I had taken the bus to the USO in town because I could not see well enough to drive (especially a problem as I had a motor cycle at the time), even tho I could see a bit better in the evening than bright daylight. The problem lasted for several days after the Pensacola eye exam. I tried to locate especially the guy that helped me get around on base for a couple days, no luck.
Yet another Med Doc problem is my release from active duty physical was nothing more than a copy of my Great lakes recruit physical with my recruit status line out and current rank hand written in.
I had a problem with my back once, no known reason, and a knee problem. Neither one may or may not be MS related, so not sure whether to bother including them.
While the JFK (aircraft carrier) was cruising off the east coast before heading for the Med I was selected by a CWO for a magazine interview (assume I would become a lifer). When asked if I was going to ship-over, I relied NO, that I had 314 days left and was NOT. The CWO asked me for 3 reasons. I told him MY number one reason was the poor medical care I had relieved. (#2 was a worthless legal office who I ended up advising about how to handle my belongings in storage at a company that closed, and #3 was food at land bases) The CWO never gave up trying to get me to ship over and I REFUSED to go up for E-6, fearing I would make it and be tempted. That is how strongly I felt about it, despite pulling a lot of choice duty.
What do YOU think?
Gomer
Problem: While on active duty I never was able to get PROPER eye care and had to go off-base to get my PRISMS updated. I was a non-VA doc back in 2009 that opened the MS issue regarding my diplopia (being a neuro-muscular issue) in 2009 that led to my getting tested and formal MS dx. I have dug up what medical info I could find, even though a bit limited. So I plan to write a basic Hx/Sx time-line that relates to my documentation. I HOPE this will overcome the note in my file by one doc and EXPLAIN WHY its relevant.
-1- MY recruit med form showing I ahd developed diplopia about 1 year prior.
-2- MY med form showing I did have PRISMS Rx in my glasses at that time (backing up #1 above).
-3 Med doc showing I was sent for an eye exam at my first duty station (Pensacola Fla hot weather)
-4- Copy of Glasses Rx showing they DID NOT include PRISMS (my diplopia overlooked/ignored)
-4a not documentation but I went to Mobile Al and got new glasses, (I plan to note it but have NO documentation)
-5- While in A-School (Jax Fla) had yet another Navy eye exam and again my diplopia was ignored and glasses Rx missing needed PRISMS.
-6- After A-School I was stationed in Sanford Fla. This time did not even bother with Navy eye docs and I went to an eye doc in nearby Winter Park. I had to get much stronger PRISMS that spring. I could not get any formal documentation; However I got teased about my new very thick PRISM glasses and have a signed letter from a fellow mate, which I gave a copy to PVA and seems to have been IGNORED so far. (he included contact info and they can easily call him if needed)
-7- No documentation again but my next duty station was Albany Ga (Sanford was closed and we were moved there to a newly closed air force B52 base). I got new prism glasses again (before our Med cruse) at at a eye doc in town.
I also had other vision issues that came and went during my tour of active duty. One especially while at Pensacola where I had to have a fellow shopmate help me for a few days. I nearly rot ran over one evening by a car I did not see when crossing the street going to the USO. I had taken the bus to the USO in town because I could not see well enough to drive (especially a problem as I had a motor cycle at the time), even tho I could see a bit better in the evening than bright daylight. The problem lasted for several days after the Pensacola eye exam. I tried to locate especially the guy that helped me get around on base for a couple days, no luck.
Yet another Med Doc problem is my release from active duty physical was nothing more than a copy of my Great lakes recruit physical with my recruit status line out and current rank hand written in.
I had a problem with my back once, no known reason, and a knee problem. Neither one may or may not be MS related, so not sure whether to bother including them.
While the JFK (aircraft carrier) was cruising off the east coast before heading for the Med I was selected by a CWO for a magazine interview (assume I would become a lifer). When asked if I was going to ship-over, I relied NO, that I had 314 days left and was NOT. The CWO asked me for 3 reasons. I told him MY number one reason was the poor medical care I had relieved. (#2 was a worthless legal office who I ended up advising about how to handle my belongings in storage at a company that closed, and #3 was food at land bases) The CWO never gave up trying to get me to ship over and I REFUSED to go up for E-6, fearing I would make it and be tempted. That is how strongly I felt about it, despite pulling a lot of choice duty.
What do YOU think?
Gomer
I am little, but still tough...no cops would dare kick us out! 
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