Posted By: KC135A
VA female dog rant. - 01/23/18 03:02 PM
Good people staff the VA. Some quacks treat us there. Idiots run it.
I was declared 100% with service related disabilities connected to my time in the desert. Left leg has never been right (not just because it is left ) and has required a bunch of surgeries over the years. Go to the VA in Helena they cut into it in the docs office, it gets infected with three antibiotic resistant bugs. I go back to them and off to the OR where a bunch more is removed from the calf. A two inch hole now is 12x6 and two inches deep. Next day I was in the ICU in Bozeman with sepsis. Then they had to take a anther chunk out. After two weeks I was denied Community Care and they wanted me to travel 120 each way to Helena three times a week. Called BS on them and they finally approve local wound care and a stem cell procedure that will not require a huge skin graft. Except they wont approve a stem cell product! It was tested in combat by the DOD, FDA approved, VA has two very positive studies on it, it is used in every VA hospital other than MT (surprise...their part time VA plastic surgeon has a deal with another company my civilian doc found out through the reps). So the contracting division says she needs a month to review the product. At the docs yesterday and a guy come out to the waiting room with the same sort of VA issued wound vac machine hooked up to his leg. Lo and behold his story matched up exactly as mine did.
So the chief of staff at Fort Harrison won't talk with me, the Director won't take calls, the patient advocate is three weeks behind in returning calls. Had my Senator's medical liaison call for three days now and they can't get a call returned. My civilian docs want me to sue them, but that is not a hassle I want at all.
My wife who is not a vet gets free ChampVA via my disability status, she has a card she can use any place any time with no referrals and just 2k a year out of pocket. Yet actual vets are ignored. Time for the VA medical side to be shut down and decent system replace it. It would be far cheaper to the nation and far fairer to vets.
Rant over!
I was declared 100% with service related disabilities connected to my time in the desert. Left leg has never been right (not just because it is left ) and has required a bunch of surgeries over the years. Go to the VA in Helena they cut into it in the docs office, it gets infected with three antibiotic resistant bugs. I go back to them and off to the OR where a bunch more is removed from the calf. A two inch hole now is 12x6 and two inches deep. Next day I was in the ICU in Bozeman with sepsis. Then they had to take a anther chunk out. After two weeks I was denied Community Care and they wanted me to travel 120 each way to Helena three times a week. Called BS on them and they finally approve local wound care and a stem cell procedure that will not require a huge skin graft. Except they wont approve a stem cell product! It was tested in combat by the DOD, FDA approved, VA has two very positive studies on it, it is used in every VA hospital other than MT (surprise...their part time VA plastic surgeon has a deal with another company my civilian doc found out through the reps). So the contracting division says she needs a month to review the product. At the docs yesterday and a guy come out to the waiting room with the same sort of VA issued wound vac machine hooked up to his leg. Lo and behold his story matched up exactly as mine did.
So the chief of staff at Fort Harrison won't talk with me, the Director won't take calls, the patient advocate is three weeks behind in returning calls. Had my Senator's medical liaison call for three days now and they can't get a call returned. My civilian docs want me to sue them, but that is not a hassle I want at all.
My wife who is not a vet gets free ChampVA via my disability status, she has a card she can use any place any time with no referrals and just 2k a year out of pocket. Yet actual vets are ignored. Time for the VA medical side to be shut down and decent system replace it. It would be far cheaper to the nation and far fairer to vets.
Rant over!