Originally Posted by
BigPoppy
Yes Dave they were for service related injuries, but I won't lie and say that I do not get some meds that are not service related. But with the three injuries I had while I was in the sevice finaly took their final toll about 13 years after I was discharged on a Medical. While in I suffered a heat stoke in july of 78 we were in full mop my 113 busted an idler arm and I changed it out in an open prarie while the temp was 105 with out a wet bulb. I had to be taken in on a dust off. A month later I was struck in the head by the foam plug from a hofman device that was set off about 10 meters from us by a tanker who was to lazy to clear his lane before he fired it I was blinded for about 2 hours. 6 weeks later I started getting migrains, After two years they found a bone spur growing behind my right eye I had surgy to repair it instead of stopping the headaches they got worse due to the way they went in through my upper jaw to get to the spur, now they know that the operation like that makes pain worse instead of better as it exposes more nerve tissue than before making cold weather a real beast to deal with. Then in 1983 we were training to go to Ft Irwin and my PC ran off into a camoflauged tank trap once again while we were in full mop gear my driver did not see the secondary obstcale we dropped 12 feet my crew fell on me and I ended up snapping off the radio racks I fractured my sacroiliac. The new Doctor at Fort Polk a young captian told me I was born with an extra vertebra and gave me a ton of motrin to help witht he sore muscles. so now you have a short version of what all is wrong with me that is service connected. The medicine that cost so much is for migrains a single tablet after insurance is 42 dollars each they come in 3 pacs when I have to have them filled and the VA is out or the pharmacy has to have a send in a special meds form due to the high cost it cost me 504 dollars if I get a whole months supply.normaly I can get away with only buying 2 weeks worth before the VA sends my new meds. Even what I go through is nothing to what some of the vets go through. Catching buses from out of states when there is no DAV, or VFW to help them. They remodle the hospital every 6 weeks and patients are left wanting. DJD there are several groups out there DAV, Disabled American Veterans. VFW, Veterans of foreign Wars, the Marine Corp league. the problem with that plan is money, a trip to DC would not be easy for a great deal of the Veterans. So if we could start a snow storm of mail they might just hear us one day.