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BlackSpinner wrote:"I will defend to death his right to say it".

Nah, you'd wimp out at the first sign of rain.

mollete wrote:

BlackSpinner wrote:"I will defend to death his right to say it".

Nah, you'd wimp out at the first sign of rain.

My dear - I floated down the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton as part of the raft race with a Pink Triangle raft back in the 80's before Gay pride parades became popular.
I camped by bicycle and canoe.
I built a house without power tools - the pouring rain and sleet.
I walk dogs in -30C weather.
Rain? who cares about rain.

Todzo wrote:viewtopic/t89986/2-Year-Mark--Giving-up.html

Todzo, enough already, you need to let this go. You have made your point and constantly obsessing about it is really getting wearisome with all due respect.

49er

BlackSpinner wrote:I floated down the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton as part of the raft race with a Pink Triangle raft back in the 80's before Gay pride parades became popular.
I camped by bicycle and canoe.
I built a house without power tools - the pouring rain and sleet.
I walk dogs in -30C weather.
Rain? who cares about rain.

Perhaps we can be partners for the Team Competition at the oft-proposed-but-never-materializing cpaptalk Reunion.

We'd kill 'em!

Ooops.

Hey, it's just a Figure of Speech!

As someone who has direct experience with VA disability, please let me state for the record that it is not easy to get VA disability. My late husband served in country from '66 to '69. One of those rare souls who was almost constantly in country. In the course of his duties at forward infantry positions, he was exposed to Agent Orange.

It wasn't until the mid-90's that I became aware of the possibility of VA disability for Agent Orange exposure. Prior to that DH had jungle rot on his feet so badly that his feet were constantly raw and sometimes bled. He also had Hodgkins Lymphoma in '76, treated with whole body radiation (not a pleasant experience), several small bowel obstructions treated by surgery, a compromised artery in his leg that eventually resulted in amputation (preceded by years of pain and suffering from repeat infections and surgeries attempting to save his leg), lung cancer in 97, metastasizing to bone in late '98, ending with his death in early '99. It took nearly a year to receive his VA disability rating of 40%. After his leg was amputated, that was increased to 60%. After he developed lung cancer (caused by radiation), it was increased to 100% for his final months of life. For all that pain and suffering he received the princely sum of about $2,000 a month for his 100% rating. Hardly enough to live on with all the medications he was taking and constant physical therapy and doctor and specialist visits. We didn't live close enough to a VA clinic to use that for his ongoing medical care.

After his death, I received a widow's pension of a whopping $1,000 / month. While I'm grateful to have received it, there is no amount I wouldn't give up to have him back and living a pain-free, healthy life. It basically helped me keep the house he bought in his final year of life. I can attest that we were definitely not getting rich off the VA. If vets are getting 40% disability for OSA, it's because they deserve it. Trust me, it's not that easy to 'game' the VA. If anything, it's the other way around.
We went to countless VA doctors each time his rating was increased, and it was never increased to the point we needed it to be until the very end. There was appeal after appeal each time.