First..I do realize that one has to APPLY for service connection, and I hope to do that shortly.
Back about 1985, when I first started going to the VAMC in Ann Arbor, I was put thru what seemed like it could have been a P&C medical exam. I had previously used the VA clinic in Orlando, so I was not new to the VA system. Back then they noticed my walking issues and chalked them up to my diabetes.
I had been formally Dx'd with diabetes for only 5 years or so and i had my diabetes in reasonable control, pretty good actually for the time frame. (we did not have the modern insulins etc we do now.)
Makes me wonder WHY, with my good control they did not check further into WHY I had neuro/walking issues back then?
(would be a pipe dream if they were to back date me being SC for MS based on that old but documented, but limited testing...)
At the time we had to go on welfare and SSDI was pending. Makes me also wonder WHY no one at the VA even mentioned possible NSC pension (like I think bob gets) or did such even exist back then?
Gomer
Sir Falls-a-lot
Back about 1985, when I first started going to the VAMC in Ann Arbor, I was put thru what seemed like it could have been a P&C medical exam. I had previously used the VA clinic in Orlando, so I was not new to the VA system. Back then they noticed my walking issues and chalked them up to my diabetes.
I had been formally Dx'd with diabetes for only 5 years or so and i had my diabetes in reasonable control, pretty good actually for the time frame. (we did not have the modern insulins etc we do now.)
Makes me wonder WHY, with my good control they did not check further into WHY I had neuro/walking issues back then?
(would be a pipe dream if they were to back date me being SC for MS based on that old but documented, but limited testing...)
At the time we had to go on welfare and SSDI was pending. Makes me also wonder WHY no one at the VA even mentioned possible NSC pension (like I think bob gets) or did such even exist back then?
Gomer
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