GOMER'd...Bums Rush by MOPH VSO
Had my appointment with my VSO (vet service officer that makes the rounds in my town today).
Worse than a waste?
-1- As I entered he made fun of my scooter, noting he or ANYONE could go buy one. While his statement was TRUE, I did not consider it very funny. There were NO zero NONE handicap aprking spaces today, had to park in a further from the building parking lot even, plus I had planned doing other things while there afterwards.
-2- Frivolous? I told him I wanted to make a service connection claim for the MS. He told me directly that he would not do it, that it would be "frivolous" and he does not do that. I have ALWAYS been 100% honest with him. I went over events while in the service that might connect the needed dots.
-3- He Laughed and joked out loud....... when one item I mention was a sharp pain down my back that I know was documented. I realize some, many people have back pains, I had a jolt when I simply bent over and picked up nothing, just bent over by my tool box. Not quite a typical back pain.... to him it was the funniest thing he had ever heard.
-4- Hearing Loss..... might as well been another joke to him. It MIGHT be MS connected, his repsonse it could be other things as well. True enough but with proper testing it might be proven as likely if not positively from the MS. His response was go find a doctor that will state to the aforementioned possability........ GOOD luck decades after the fact. The Navy documented I suffered my hearing loss while on active duty, just NEVER told me. I only found out by filling a claim for the hearing loss 4 decades later.
-5- VISION........ the problem here is I have not been able to find any record of a vision problem I had while stationed in Pensicola. My shop (boss) sent me to the base hospital due to a vision problem I was having, durring the hot Fla summer of course. My vision was a mess for days, even after the hospital visit. Later while stationed in Sanford Fla, my diplopia got worse, had to have my glasses prisms DOUBLED. Since I could not seem to get good vision care from the Navy, I went to an eye doc in Winter Park, not far from Snaford to get proper glasses. I have had the diplopia since I was 18, but it did get MUCH worse while on active duty.
-6- Helpful? Not hardly! He is aware of my asserting critical items missing from what I ahve been able to get in the way fo Navy medical records so far. He did not even hint that I might be able to get sworn statments from another shipmate supporting my claim, something I learned here at MS world. I do in fact have occasional contact with one still after all these decades. I just called him, he lives in Fla and I left him a message, asking if he remembers. There is a good chance, as we were both in the same new jsut forming shop when this occured.
GOMER'd again, he even suggested I might try VFW or some OTHER VSO to help me file my FRIVILOUS MS claim. To him the whole thing, from my scooter to MS itself was a real big JOKE! At this point I am inclined to file a complaint to MOPH about his ATTITUDE, which I find insulting to say the least.
Doc Gomer Doctor of, Been There, Done That.
Had my appointment with my VSO (vet service officer that makes the rounds in my town today).
Worse than a waste?
-1- As I entered he made fun of my scooter, noting he or ANYONE could go buy one. While his statement was TRUE, I did not consider it very funny. There were NO zero NONE handicap aprking spaces today, had to park in a further from the building parking lot even, plus I had planned doing other things while there afterwards.
-2- Frivolous? I told him I wanted to make a service connection claim for the MS. He told me directly that he would not do it, that it would be "frivolous" and he does not do that. I have ALWAYS been 100% honest with him. I went over events while in the service that might connect the needed dots.
-3- He Laughed and joked out loud....... when one item I mention was a sharp pain down my back that I know was documented. I realize some, many people have back pains, I had a jolt when I simply bent over and picked up nothing, just bent over by my tool box. Not quite a typical back pain.... to him it was the funniest thing he had ever heard.
-4- Hearing Loss..... might as well been another joke to him. It MIGHT be MS connected, his repsonse it could be other things as well. True enough but with proper testing it might be proven as likely if not positively from the MS. His response was go find a doctor that will state to the aforementioned possability........ GOOD luck decades after the fact. The Navy documented I suffered my hearing loss while on active duty, just NEVER told me. I only found out by filling a claim for the hearing loss 4 decades later.
-5- VISION........ the problem here is I have not been able to find any record of a vision problem I had while stationed in Pensicola. My shop (boss) sent me to the base hospital due to a vision problem I was having, durring the hot Fla summer of course. My vision was a mess for days, even after the hospital visit. Later while stationed in Sanford Fla, my diplopia got worse, had to have my glasses prisms DOUBLED. Since I could not seem to get good vision care from the Navy, I went to an eye doc in Winter Park, not far from Snaford to get proper glasses. I have had the diplopia since I was 18, but it did get MUCH worse while on active duty.
-6- Helpful? Not hardly! He is aware of my asserting critical items missing from what I ahve been able to get in the way fo Navy medical records so far. He did not even hint that I might be able to get sworn statments from another shipmate supporting my claim, something I learned here at MS world. I do in fact have occasional contact with one still after all these decades. I just called him, he lives in Fla and I left him a message, asking if he remembers. There is a good chance, as we were both in the same new jsut forming shop when this occured.
GOMER'd again, he even suggested I might try VFW or some OTHER VSO to help me file my FRIVILOUS MS claim. To him the whole thing, from my scooter to MS itself was a real big JOKE! At this point I am inclined to file a complaint to MOPH about his ATTITUDE, which I find insulting to say the least.
Doc Gomer Doctor of, Been There, Done That.
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