Tag Archives: HCV Health Tips

JETGUNS–WE’RE ON A MISSION FROM GOD

Posted on August 16, 2016 by asknod

Cupcake has graciously offered to drive me to San Francisco for the Gilead Sciences Conference. We’re taking Silvia’s jetguns (plural) to Foster City. I have been invited as fellow HCVet Randy Nesbitt’s guest. Finding air travel less than desirable in late … Continue reading →

VA DIAGNOSTIC CODE 7354–622 VETS @ 100%

Posted on June 23, 2016 by asknod

Here’s a scary VA statistic. I’ve helped, to my immediate knowledge, around 300 Veterans over 8 years find the light at the end of the VA tunnel on just Hepatitis C. Imagine there are only 622 of us rated for … Continue reading →

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BVA–EVERYONE’S GONE TO THE MOON

Posted on June 15, 2016 by asknod

Here are a pair of cases recently decided that show a marked detour from the days of old. In 1997, or perhaps even 2010, these two BVA decisions would have gone against the Veterans involved. It proves that either the … Continue reading →

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BVA–ACUTE VERSUS CHRONIC HEPATITIS C

Posted on June 3, 2016 by asknod

The lengths the VA will go to in order to deny a claim are impressive. Sometimes they resort to inundating you in extraneous facts that have absolutely no bearing on the decision. The further afield you go in an effort … Continue reading →

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VHA–RELAX. WE HAVE YOUR SIX

Posted on March 20, 2016 by asknod

Well, boy howdy. All this consternation over trying to obtain Harvoni and be cured of this HCV blight was much ado about nothing. Well, that is until we find out VA might not be considering Harvoni exclusively. VA is trying like … Continue reading →

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BVA–MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE HAMSTER WHEEL…

Posted on March 17, 2016 by asknod

I finally got down to the ownership of who coined “the hamster wheel” to disparage the VA adjudications treadmill. It was(drumroll) Carol Wild Scott. It stuck. I am also reaching that plateau with the word jetgun. I coined that in … Continue reading →

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RA drug warning for active or latent HCV carriers

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Laura

A new Pfizer drug marketed as Xeljanz (tofacitinib) is “a prescription medicine called a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor. XELJANZ is used to treat adults with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis in which methotrexate did not work well. It is … Continue reading →

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JETGUNS–MAKING OLD PICTURES TALK

Posted on February 15, 2016 by asknod

Over the last decade, I’ve been inundated in contemporary pictures of guys getting poked with jetguns. I love that word. I e-invented it back in 2007 and it’s gradually taken hold since I published the first book. All those pictures bespoke … Continue reading →

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BVA–WHOA! I NEVER SAID IT WAS A JETGUN

Posted on February 15, 2016 by asknod

We are all quite familiar by now with the VA’s habit of throwing everything but the kitchen sink into the VISTA records. We’ve even seen instances where they insert “aftermarket” penciled in notes that somehow refuse to be erased. Phil … Continue reading →

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BVA–TRYING TO POKE A HOLE IN LOD/WILLFUL MISCONDUCT

Posted on February 13, 2016 by asknod

VA loves to try to rescind, revoke or otherwise contradict a finding of LOD such that it can invoke the willful misconduct etiology on drug use. Here’s a classic example of Uncle Victor’s munchkins huffing and puffing and trying like … Continue reading →