"Second, on what has proven to be a huge day for veterans, there has been another major development in Washington, DC. President Obama listened to IAVA and the other major veterans organizations, and made a critical decision to not move forward with a proposal to bill a veteran's private insurance for the cost of caring for a service-connected injury."
You can read his entire post on his blog at http://iava.org/blog
2 comments:
To be diagnosed with PTSD and all the signs and symptoms this manifested helped me a great deal.
I wish it did not take so long to diagnose, I was, crazy, angry, suicidal, and wondered whymy life was not working out the way I had planned or hoped.
MY life stil is not what Ihad hoped it would be but now I have some hope that one day it might be.
I spent 18 years in theArmy and just could not take anymore. Being shipped to different places, djoing what I thought was needless bullshit, justed fueled my overwhelming anger and discontentment.
I was a Paramedic and a nurse and spend time in the Middle east as a flight Medic. I am haunted by what I have seen and what I experienced and what I had to do to survive.
Soon when I got back, I lost my motivationa nd was experienceing nightmares, flashbacks, night sweats and insomnia. I went to many civilian doctors trying to find things that would numb me up and medicate me out of the shit shtorm I had found myself in.
MY experience was not my only cmbat/conflict experience, I was the kind of soldier who volenteerd and volenteered for Ranger school, Spec ops, Counter drug ops, etc.
And the crap keeps on coming. Iam now under VA care, but the docs seem to have a set treatment plan that does not always work for every one. I cant remember when I have had a decent night sleep!
Sometimse I am ashamed to say those that didnt make it are the lucky ones. As a medic, I saw more than my fare share of death
I can't hold a job, I have this stigma hanging over my head and I see no end in the near future.
I often thnk to myself, that I will never have a normal life. A relationships, marrage, kids, steady job, love, etc.... Maybe this is the price I had to pay to serve my country and answer its call.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
No Rick you aren't the only one who feels that way! But when you are in the thick of it I know it feels like you are the only one out there.
Why don't you try and get into Ingrid's group of EFT'ers. They are several people volunteering time to help vets.
Check out this web site www.emofree.com and you will find a video showing actual footage of vets getting relief from EXACTLY what you have discribed here!
best of luck,
Lisa
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