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TDIVet, I can certainly guarantee you that I believe that you state what you believe to be true and nothing but the truth.

Look, after 20 years of being 10% for a Shoulder Injury which I had Four, count 1,2,3, 4 Surgeries--one a Bone Reconstruction., and the others following that one--two in the Army and the others VA. Now, last year, during my appointment with a VA Rep, I was told that My Scar of 5" alone was worth 20%. I looked at my NPR and discovered that All of the Complaints I took the VA last year for an Increase as Secondary to my Injury, Factually Occured the Same Date of my Injury and were not Xrayed. They were noted at my after surgery PT. Then Those Same Complaints were noted for over Four, count them 1,2,3,4 more years.

So, the VA Knew that I had a 5" Scar, the VA Rep I was sent to Knew I had a 5" Scar, the VA C&P Knew I had a 5" Scar. They All Knew!
Someone Knew that my Scar was Compensatable. Now, I had several Ortho Docs who Dxd me with Muscoloskeletal Impingement Syndromes, Peripheral Nerve Damage or Fibromialgia--None of Those I had Ever Heard of Before Last Year--2008. In other words, those were written in either Air Force, Army, VA or Civilian Doc Dxes. By the time I had asked for an Increase Claim the first time, the VA Knew All of Those Complaints, Descriptions and Dxes even though I did not know what was going on or recall.

When the DAV Rep explained to me that I had at least 12 issues related to my original injury date, my jaw was wide open. Of course, those include PTSD by this time in my life.

Now, when I went to the VA for C&P this last year, the MD measured my scar both lenth and width and touched the tender areas as well as took notes on the nerve damage. It helped that the DAV guy had 12 issues stated and that I opened my NPR and ordered all my Medical Records from the VA and looked at Every Single Page.

TDIvet Each and Every Neurologist I went to at the VA last year started out with the same verbiage about "We cannot tell what happened 20 years ago..." Well,I used my GI Bill even if I did have head trauma and it took me almost three times as long to get to graduation. After I met with three Neurologists who thought it nothing that I was Walking into Walls after my first surgery, Seeing Words spelled forward and backward in anti-nyms and syn-nyms, people's faces overlaying other people's faces, space and time diverging, and hearing sounds in my ears as if I am inside a submarine under water. They never even referred me to Polytrauma where I have an apt next week, a few months after my C&P. I just got CPAP yesterday though I had told one of the local VA Center Docs that I have been so fatigued I have to hold myself up in public and fall asleep and dream dreams and hear other Veterans at the same time. After I finally got a General Practitioner who caught that, I was sent to the Sleep Center.

Yes, I do believe that there is an inherant sentiment of anti-Veteran at the VA. Who those people are might be not so much as coordinated as much as personal bias--Post Vietnam Peace Movement. I state that because I did run into a WWII Marine who told me at the VA Hosp that they got better treatment than even I received. He said it was the Reagan Era Cutbacks. Maybe or maybe another opinion. But for certain the New VA is not necessarily better than the one I stopped going to for lack of services in the early nineties.