Tag Archives: HCV

CAVC KNOWLEDGE 6–THEORY OF RELATIVITY

When you get to the CAVC and you are preparing your defense, the proper thing do is to express every theory of service connection-anything- no matter how far-fetched. It should only be theories advanced in your BVA appeal which behooves … Continue reading →

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BVA–STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES

Who’s dumber? The Vet who eats rat poison for almost a year and goes blind or the VAMC who should have cut him off after six months? Regardless, the damage is done. It reads a lot like my problems list. … Continue reading →

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BVA–LOUISVILLE SLUGGER

Either I’m becoming jaded or the BVA is getting soft on the Kentucky Vets with HCV. This is about the fourth one where the Vet must have had a CMOH to get this kind of consideration. Vets by now are … Continue reading →

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BVA– WELL, ACTUALLY IT WAS THE PNEUMONIA

I guess Johnny Alabama wasn’t expecting vA to actually go back and look at his hospitalization records. Surprise! Lookit here. It says that it wasn’t for HCV but actually pneumonia. Can anyone explain this disparity? Johnny finally came clean at the … Continue reading →

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BVA- JETGUN WIN FROM NEWARK

Here’s a relatively clean jetgun decision with a side of shared razors. It’s not the first time the VVA has done a bang up job on this. I  see the Vet was smart enough to get a hall pass from … Continue reading →

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FALL BVA DECISIONS ARE POSTED

Red hot and the link works. All the late August, September, and some October BVA decisions are up on the boards today. Same sad story of Lions-5, Christians=0 in the BVA Colosseum  We didn’t expect any less. A few will win … Continue reading →

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BVA–CUSTER’S LAST STAND

Dang. And I thought they were dragging their feet on my claim. Check this out. Major Reno’s great grandson files for Hep C in 1995. This assumes they didn’t take more than a year to deny from filing date. And … Continue reading →

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BVA– ROGER ON THE C-FILES

We often read about our hanging at a BVA Board ruling weeks after it happens. It’s predictable and usually anti-climatic. Of the many I’ve read, this one stands out for its audacity in reporting what we all know. We always hear of … Continue reading →

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Military Veterans and Hepatitis C

HCV advocacy group writer Terry Baker provides a 6-page chapter (22) about veterans in the book, Hepatitis C Choices (4th Ed.); it reiterates information discussed here with supporting charts and footnotes.   A major flaw in the chapter is its failure to … Continue reading →

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WHO IS THAT?

Okay. Who is it coming in on the search engines with “Alien abduction of hepatitis children”? Or “eating feces”? There are several other bizarre things that search engines bring here. I posted several about alien abduction being a leading risk factor … Continue reading →

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