Houston VA hospital?

[gulf vet fed up]

Greetings,

Depleted uranium, chemical warfare, burning oil well fires, all sorts of shots, and the VA Houston Hospital says my medical conditions are in my head. Not only that, today I was told by a Veteran service representative that Houston medical personal will easily brand veternas with the term, compensationitis, meaning all they are in for is money. This is Houston over, could it be mars though.

I walked into VA Hospital Houston complaing of these conditions in Sep 2002. Scale 1-10, 1 ok- 10 dead. Chronic Fatigue +5, Hearing loss +6, Joint Pain +5, Short term memory loss + 8, Rashes +3, Migraine Headaches + 9, at least 3 times a week, Blurred vision + 4, Sperm burns my wife + 4, Sleep disorder + 6.

I did my Clinical eval program at Ft Bliss in 1997, all with the same symptoms, but all with a lower degree of pain, +2's and 3's. Yeah they sent me out the door with no help to.

In 2002 Houston VA allowed me in it's doors, and I was amazed at how fast every doctor was in getting me back out the door. Oh I waited almost all day in the clinics to be seen, along with all the other vets. Doctors, or whatever you call them down here, looked me over, asked less questions than the toll booth operators here in town ask, except for one doctor, who I could tell was asking questions like the CIA did with Al Capone, you can just tell you know, and out the door I went. The eye doctor said she could see scratches in my eyes indicitave of sand, go figure. All the rest of the doctors in those clinics just looked at me like I was some cow down at the live stock show at the Astordome during rodeo.

Lota cows there you know.

I Left VA Hospital, about two months later got 10% for headaches service connected, and denied all the rest. No treatment plan, no nothing. Not even motrin, I buy that and eat them like candy. It numbs the migraine but I am still left with the nauseua. I even changed my diet to all organics, this made the acid reflux go away. Everything else just kept on moving forward.

You see I was confused up until today. My current service rep told me when a veteran files a claim, the hospital in Houston treats that veteran as if they are gold digging, and does not approach the patinet with the mind of a doctor searching, diagnosing, or offereing help, but becomes a signature in which to deny deny deny. Do congressman wear white coats and pull shifts down at Houston VA acting like doctors? Could they get away with this?

I found out the hard way that the doctors are only interested in saving VA money, but I did not know this before. My last service rep (2002 Texas Veterans Comm) never told me anything about the Hospital, or anything I have found out. I am with VFW now, he really let me have it today, lets just say "I am almost in shock with what really goes on down there"!.

In the last six months to a year, more problems, I have had chest pains, numbness, increased vertigo, dizzyness, arm muscles and calf muscles twitch some but hurt most of the time + 4.

Since 1991 I have been very slowly getting worse. I have bronchitis at least twice a year now, and it appears to be increasing slowly to three times a year.

My conditions, all of them are advancing slowly forward, and all my symptoms, pains, problems increase along with them. I would say a little faster than a snails pace.

I am forty, and I have never suffered such depression over having my country turn their back on me, and even worse, doctors and medical people who I thought worked in the field because they cared about helping people, not being part of the agenda of the governtment and their rich corporate money war thugs, would really help. No, I was wrong.

I could slamb my head in a door for being so stupid as to believe my country would treat me better than the Vietnam vets, of the which I saw go through hell with the VA. Boy did they take me for a ride. I learned war is hell, and Iraq, as far as I am concerned is hell on earth. My rep today said I suffer from PTSD from the war, I aksed him if they had such an acronym describing the stress the VA puts vets through, I aksed him does PTSD also entail dealing with the VA. He just stared at me on that one. I guess I am a cow again.

I guess it would be known as VA-PTSD

I wrote all this because I was an NCO in the military, you know the one like a Nurse is compared to a Doctor. The one who knows the real deal, and when something needs to be fixed, they dont call the officers, they call the NCO's. I grew up in an house where my mother was a old folks home nurse, and I learned that Nurses are the one's who know the real deal in their fields, and most of the doctors only read it some where or played copy cat, but nurses do all the dirty work and helping patients heal, and are generally the only ones with a real heart in all the whole hospital staff, not the heart with blood in it either.

With this I learned many nurses overcome the medical school power curve and figure out what really works, then when the doctor rushes off to the golf game or to go count his money down at the bank, the nurse is next to the bed side making adjustments and conducting real treament.

I am lost in this VA crap hospital. I can deal with allot in life, but I have never had to deal with folks who look at me with evil in their hearts, when I have done nothing wrong but enlist and obey orders.

I served my country in war and exited with an honorable discharge, I fought her wars, through chemical warfare, and all the other evil weapons, but my country was busy buying a new car, or worrying about their investment down at Enron, or some lame president who lied about sex, or about WMD, of course he is right about WMD in Iraq just that the WMD is depleted uranium and we are the ones in possession of it, we shoot eveything there is with radiation bullets, then when I needed their help, they acted like they were deaf and blind, just like their current president, and turned their back on me. Now they just tell me it is all in my head. Ever heard someone in life sense they are going to die soon. Up until about two years ago I had that youthful invincible attitude, now I really feel the end is near.

I was bush whacked,and imagine I voted for this guy.

Someone the other day said it might be ALS or lyme. I dont know, I can get the VA Houston to look beyond their bias to even check. Oh they will draw blood, do xrays, whatever....

But you know, I still need help....

I dont want your money, I dont want your sympathy, I need some medical help, and my wife is the bread winner earning 15 dollar an hour down at a white collar company who are like the doctors, busy looking at their bank statements.

She worked real hard last year, and won a award for a thousand dollar bonus, but uncle sam said he needed his cut ($330.00) to buy more depleted uranium so he could shoot some more Iraqis and win the war over there, or was it going to mars he needed money, or was it the he needed a new house or a pay raise. Oh, I remember, he needed to pay to get re-elected so he could go back to sleep again when some nut flyies around in a jumbo jet looking to see what he can crash into, or was it he was reading about goats, and also so his buddy can fill the pockets of his rich corporate buddies and his and their company who is suposedly rebuilding what we destroy.

Sick and depressed, now my fingers hurt.

Veteran

Oh, please dont call me if there is another war, I can barely walk now, so youll have to find another sucker born every minute.

Eagle are you there, Houston you are breaking up, over. Out...

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[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

I hear the desperation in your voice. It is shameful the way you have been treated, but my sympathy isn't going to help you. The military often thinks it can do whatever it pleases ("might makes right")--this is just the way they are (kind of like health care executives). Try to put away the feelings of anger and betrayal and focus instead on developing an action plan to get on with your life (in other words, become proactive, and get rid of the victim mentality). Is there anyone else you can contact besides the Veterans Hospital, such as your Congressman or Senator, or better yet the news media? I would also suggest contacting a lawyer for legal counseling. There are also reputable alternative medicine sites such as http://www.mercola.com with ideas for treatments that may truly help with your symptoms.