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Ah Larry, glad you are back! Was in long weekend and just seeing your posts now.
Welcome back!!!

Yeah, I guess I'm back to stay. I'm cranking out another AAR, hope-ing that they
will want to publish it too. Got my fingers crossed.

ORIGINAL: fogger
Did you get your ear looked at?

ORIGINAL larry dude
The on-call nurse finally called me and said that they earliest they could get me in would be in September
and did I want to just go to a civilian doctor and let the VA pay for it? I said yeah, sure, that works for me.
And she said she would get the VA's civilian dermatologist contractor to give me a call within the next two weeks.
That was day before yesterday. I'll be really surprised if any body calls.

Hey you guys........an update: The TriWest representative called me and said July 12 would be open at
13:00 and did I want an appointment then. So I'm going to get a ride into the Doctor's office and finally
get my ear looked at. I'll keep you guys in the loop.

The nurse from Dr. Bennett's office just called me. She said that the biopsy on the
thing growing on my right ear was not cancerous. What you call "Bee Nine". So I'm
in the clear. Just so you know.

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

The nurse from Dr. Bennett's office just called me. She said that the biopsy on the
thing growing on my right ear was not cancerous. What you call "Bee Nine". So I'm
in the clear. Just so you know.

Very good to hear (especially after hearing way too much of the opposite around me lately) - "benign" is the term you are aiming for in these cases and its a very good reason to be happy and thankful!

Nice to hear, Larry.

ORIGINAL: Meyer1

Nice to hear, Larry.

+1000

Feel your pain, Larry - Just got out of the hospital myself - seems some bug got to my leg, infected it, and spent considerable time fighting it off. Must have fumbled a save roll, or something...

I was fine until they had to de-breed it - I really, REALLY, have empathy for burn patients now...

Larry's experiences with the VA pretty well track those of mine and my friends.

Any of you who are naive enough to think that single-payer health care is a good idea should ask a veteran or a Native American about how government health care has worked out for them. Their answers will horrify you. Government-run health care is worse than the worse thing that you can imagine.

Jeff: that's debride, not debreed. In theory they are removing matter from your wound that is infected or will prevent healing. I had my left arm burned pretty badly (WP) and went through it.

They can also do it via a whirlpool bath. That doesn't hurt nearly so much.

I have this framed in my living room:

"In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism. And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeons cannot extract. All of those bivouacs in the rain and snow, all the privations, all those fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair." - Elzéar Blaze, Life In Napoleon's Army

ORIGINAL: Steely Glint

Larry's experiences with the VA pretty well track those of mine and my friends.

Any of you who are naive enough to think that single-payer health care is a good idea should ask a veteran or a Native American about how government health care has worked out for them. Their answers will horrify you. Government-run health care is worse than the worse thing that you can imagine.

Probably not the right forum to start a discussion about these types of topics [;)]

The dermtologist, Dr. Bennet, removed the offending growth and sprayed the wound with some kind of polymer solution that promotes growth and
now it's two weeks later and there's no scar tissue, and the area is now new skin and looks great. I don't remember it ever hurting and as
a matter of fact it didn't itch much either. It worked out just fine. The VA did it right this time.

My parents and now I have found Medicare quite good. I have had excellent results with the VA for hearing, orthopedic, and gastro issues. Yes there are horror stories about the VA, Tricare and Medicare (all Government) but there are similar stories about most any health care system. Incidentally all of the European countries with single payer health care their people all live longer than we do in the USA. I agree this is not the forum to discuss so this will be my last post on this subject.