Tag Archives: HCV Veterans

BVA–HAV SPREAD BY HAVING SEX; HCV?NOT SO MUCH

How’s this for the most defective diagnosis in the history of Hep. Keep in mind that Wonder Woman had to go back to college to get this right.  Exactly which college is not specified. The examiner provided an addendum report in … Continue reading

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BVA–vA’S MOST EXCELLENT GRAYBAR HOTEL COMPUTER

I have to say that some in the past doubted my word that vA was very inquisitive about your life post-service and often goes afield looking for you or a footprint in the sand to show your passing. The CAVC … Continue reading

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FOOTLOCKER–WGM’s TREASURES

Finally something to put into the footlocker. Hardly. These are beautiful hand-knapped arrowheads that WGM made personally. He mailed me the first black, obsidian glass head when he won. It’s an apt artistic expression of the war-like nature needed to pursue … Continue reading

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HCV–CLOSING IN ON THE BEAST

Member KC sends me these two articles on HCV treatment. I knew we’d see significant progress towards some new form of treatment considering this is America and home of the 1a genotype. The first treatment discussion is a true, Interferon-free idea and … Continue reading

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BVA–ST. PETE VETS GET NO RESPECT

I leave you with this one tonight. Vet goes to Subic Bay. Being typical Navy, he cavorts with prostitutes and gets tattoos. Vet has HCV  flu-type symptoms several times in Subic Bay after cavorting exercises. Vet comes down with HCV … Continue reading

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BVA– BUM’S RUSH

How many times are we told we do not have the medical expertise to opine on the etiology of where our disease came from or what particular risk was the culprit? Try this one on for size. Vet partied hearty … Continue reading

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BVA–NO TEST FOR HCV IN 72=SPECULATION

I couldn’t think how to communicate this decision logic in 30 words or less hence the speculation header. Try this logic on for size. First, the vA examiner reads the file and concluded the Vet never had hep in service. Someone … Continue reading

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BVA– DIRTY JETGUNS = HCV

This isn’t a snowball rolling downhill yet but it certainly is a banner year for HCVets claiming jetguns. What’s unique about this is that several VA examiners is saying it. The Vet has just dragged in not one but two good nexus … Continue reading

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BVA– CUE BY ST. PETE”S RO (4th TIME)

You get that warm, fuzzy, content feeling about your Regional Office when they keep committing CUE and the Board keeps remanding it via the 59th RO (AMC or Appeals Management Center). Its now 2012 and they’ve been playing pingpong with it since … Continue reading

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BVA– STDS = 98% WILLFUL MISCONDUCT

This is pathetic. When they did it to WGM down in Houston, I thought of it as an aberration-stupid but otherwise just a bad hair day for the rater. What we all forget is that the big cheese DRO had to … Continue reading

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