Tag Archives: DIY vA Claims

Can you kill HCV on equipment by boiling or burning? NO, CDC warns inmates.

HCV to pot of boiling water or hot flame: Bring it on. You can’t stop me. Here’s the flyer:  http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/HCV/PDFs/HepCIncarcerationFactSheet.pdf CDC Publication No. 21-1306 entitled Hepatitis C and Incarceration,  page 2, states: Why doesn’t cleaning kill the Hepatitis C virus? Bleaching, … Continue reading

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What if HCV is your only service-connected STD?

HCV is called a lot of things.  We know that Hepatitis C is classified as a communicable disease.   It is transmitted when the blood of an infected person enters the blood-stream of another person. We know that mother-to-child transmission … Continue reading

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THE LITTLE YELLOW BOOK

Remember your shot record book? That yellow compendium of all the inoculations and TB tine tests you had. The indignity and pain from the dreaded jetguns recorded and immortalized for posterity is there in the book. Some of you may … Continue reading

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CAVC–DENNIS V. SHINSEKI–DENNIS THE MENACE

Pull up a chair and set a spell. This is a piece of work. Occasionally we win. That much is undebatable.  Occasionally, VA decides they were too nice and opts to take it all back. Keith Roberts comes to mind here. … Continue reading

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NEW DRUGS FOR DM2

Here’s the latest from Randy. I can’t thank all of you enough for finding these things. Ideally, VA would publish this but we can’t count on it. In spite of their constant verbiage about how cutting-edge they (VA) are on … Continue reading

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FYI: New post-sharing options available on the AskNod weblog

Due to some site tweaking by NOD, readers can now share posts via new services.  Click on a post title, scroll down to choose one or to sign up: (The bold are new.) Twitter, Facebook, Email, Print, Reddit, Select “More” to access … Continue reading

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2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 80,000 times in 2012. If it were … Continue reading

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ASKNOD BOOK ON YOUTUBE

Gez, I paid for this almost a year ago and they finally got it right. At first the soldier was saluting with his left arm. It took six months to fix that. Enjoy. Leave comments to help others if you got anything … Continue reading

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Where did your VSO come from?

Most VSO’s are chartered by Congress.  (You should know you are in trouble if it has anything to do with congress.  I am still smarting from the fiscal cliff, and not sure we have not fallen off it yet) According … Continue reading

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OH, GOODY. THE FIRST CHRISTMAS JOKE

From member Cal. This is good. Three Veterans  died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates. ‘In honor of this holy season’ Saint Peter said, ‘you must each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.’ … Continue reading

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