3 items for my MEB are going to be rated. I had a non-union fracture removed from my left wrist and the ligament that was on the loose bone was anchored with a screw. After 6 months they did a second surgery where they removed the Palmaris Longus tendon from my forearm and grafted it to the retinaculum tissue holding my ECU tendon in place. The graft failed, per my ortho surgeon, due to a TFCC tendon tear.
Does this sound like tendon transplant failure or am I going to only be able to claim the ROM limitations?
They want to do another surgery however, I just had two intra-coronary stents placed in my right coronary artery. I had a 90% blockage with a large blood clot behind it. Genetic with no symptoms upon entering AD in 1996. Angioplasty, stents, and no heart attack. I am on Effient and aspirin for a year so I can't have the wrist surgery. I am on cholesterol medicine for life (lab findings aren't VA compensable?) due to genetics.
How do they assign the NY heart rating for CAD?
Is the revascularization a separate claim?
Does aspirin and/or cholesterol medicine count for 10% "needs medication"?
Does medication needed for anxiety count for the % given for anxiety?
Does this sound like tendon transplant failure or am I going to only be able to claim the ROM limitations?
They want to do another surgery however, I just had two intra-coronary stents placed in my right coronary artery. I had a 90% blockage with a large blood clot behind it. Genetic with no symptoms upon entering AD in 1996. Angioplasty, stents, and no heart attack. I am on Effient and aspirin for a year so I can't have the wrist surgery. I am on cholesterol medicine for life (lab findings aren't VA compensable?) due to genetics.
How do they assign the NY heart rating for CAD?
Is the revascularization a separate claim?
Does aspirin and/or cholesterol medicine count for 10% "needs medication"?
Does medication needed for anxiety count for the % given for anxiety?