Hello, I am new here and I’m super stressed out. I’m impaired so if someone asks a question it takes me a long time to answer and I forget what I’m doing. They sent me to neurosurgery for tbi evaluation, my last head injury resulted in a messed up cspine and a weird hemorrhage growth thing on the pituitary. My neurosurgeon didn’t get any imaging, notes, or records. He also couldn’t look at mine. I have reached out to my msc about all of this and my peblo and no one answered me. I think I’m failing at getting my point across. I only have one appointment left and it is general medicine nurse practitioner for mostly msk stuff. Does anyone have any advice on what I am to do? Im just so confused all the time. They are med boarding me for persistent post concussion disorder, cervicalgia, post covid (hospitalized with pulmonary embolism, and functional neurological disorder (my neurologist now retracts and believes it might be a connected tissue disorder). I go to neurology and he was just tbi, he had no notes, I have water dripping from nose and ears and the ear lady says she just does hearing, I have dry eye with nystagmus and optometry said I was just there for dry eye. I am going to be unemployable I have neuropathy so bad I cannot even hold 5 lbs so I just want to cry.
6 TBIS AND COGNITIVE DAMAGE.
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@AceofSpaced
Full disclosure: I was a Marine JAG (Deputy SJA for Camp Lejeune), Active Duty and Reserve IPEB & FPEB attorney, federal government civilian FPEB & TDRL-focused attorney at the Navy PEB, and now a private attorney focused solely on IDES cases.
What Service are you in? I ask because each branch of the military has different resources at the MEB phase. Regarding your substantive issues, you can engage with a patient advocate to address issues with your healthcare at the MTF. In terms of C&P exam issues with an MSC who's ghosting you, a good option is to engage with your government counsel - IPEB/MEB counsel - or private counsel. Frankly, although many PEBLO's assist with these issues the best they can, PEBLO's have extremely heavy caseloads and don't wield much authority over other actors in the process. Still, there really isn't any government employee in the IDES process who's a "fire and forget" weapon for you to deploy to solve these issues. Being in the IDES always involves learning a ton and working a ton, advocating for your case.
All that said, a call or email or visit to your government counsel is a great first step. When I was an Active-Duty IPEB attorney, although I had 50-60 open cases at any given time, I tried to prioritize cases based on timeliness, severity, and stage. With all the medical issues involved and your cognitive impairments, yours sounds like a high priority case.
S/f,
Joel JPettit
Full disclosure: I was a Marine JAG (Deputy SJA for Camp Lejeune), Active Duty and Reserve IPEB & FPEB attorney, federal government civilian FPEB & TDRL-focused attorney at the Navy PEB, and now a private attorney focused solely on IDES cases.
What Service are you in? I ask because each branch of the military has different resources at the MEB phase. Regarding your substantive issues, you can engage with a patient advocate to address issues with your healthcare at the MTF. In terms of C&P exam issues with an MSC who's ghosting you, a good option is to engage with your government counsel - IPEB/MEB counsel - or private counsel. Frankly, although many PEBLO's assist with these issues the best they can, PEBLO's have extremely heavy caseloads and don't wield much authority over other actors in the process. Still, there really isn't any government employee in the IDES process who's a "fire and forget" weapon for you to deploy to solve these issues. Being in the IDES always involves learning a ton and working a ton, advocating for your case.
All that said, a call or email or visit to your government counsel is a great first step. When I was an Active-Duty IPEB attorney, although I had 50-60 open cases at any given time, I tried to prioritize cases based on timeliness, severity, and stage. With all the medical issues involved and your cognitive impairments, yours sounds like a high priority case.
S/f,
Joel JPettit
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