here is the original post regarding my husband's situation - i have been keeping up with the thread and updating it as we have gone along in this entire process.
http://pebforum.com/threads/found-fit-for-duty-now-contesting-help.43067/
SHORT STORY:
husband was referred to MEB
went up for MEB and found FIT due to past evals
contested and asked for a FPEB
granted FPEB
went to FPEB with new medical evidence, new non-medical evidence, new statement from chief and command, neuro, doctors, me [spouse] and co-workers.
found FIT at FPEB due to past evals.
was told by lawyer this was baffling, he needed to submit a PFR [petition for relief]
petition for relief came back denied - found FIT again, due to past evals
i am asking for help in understanding this - and also doing a little bit of venting, so please nobody take this the wrong way. i am in NO WAY stating my husband's condition is better or worse than ANYONE's. please know my questions and venting merely stem from concern.
my husband has been suffering with severe, chronic [daily] migraines for over seven years now. he has gone to countless doctors, ER visits, neurologists, pain psychologists and even lost his eyesight for 16 days because of one of the 13-14 medications he has been placed on like a guinea pig over the past several years. they have done scans, MRI, CATSCAN, X-RAY, bloodwork.....i could go on.
but because my husband isn't a slacker [not saying people who are found UNFIT are slackers - again, this is just what we have been told, not our words], he is being found FIT. and not to take away from my husband's accomplishments [because he will tell you the same thing] he isn't at the largest command, either. they are basing their decision off of his past evals and the fact that he made junior sailor of the quarter and year at his small command almost two years ago. again.....almost two years ago.
there has got to be something we can do. his FPEB was all over the place, and he felt they were more focused on figuring out what he was going to be doing when he left the military. they asked him about linkedin pages and whether he had been offered a position outside of the military - which he obviously has not and he doesn't have any linkedin page, either. is there something we can do from here? going to the board of corrections of medical records, or whatever it is, sounds like it would do nothing for him other than take out things that have happened to him, medically. and that is something we do not want at this time.
it pains me - makes me sick, whatever - to see a 30 year old give nine years of his life to the military and suffer to the point of now severe depression. he puts on a brave face at his command but is unable to do so when at home. the botox that has somewhat helped is now starting to not work as well due to building a tolerance to it. at 30 years old.......going to a pain psychologist and being on 4-5 daily medicatiions on top of botox injections every three months....but this is normal to the military?
is this normal for the navy/military?
is there something else we can do?
his neuro said he will be putting him back up for another medboard in six months, because he says in no way shape or form should my husband be serving - is there something he needs to do more that he hasn't this last time around? [we feel that he has done every thing, as do the lawyers and PEBLOs and doctors]
is there something, as a spouse, i can be doing to help him with his being depressed from the constant pain he is in? [he will be making an appointment to see someone - just asking for advice that can come as assistance to me]
thank you if you made it this far.
http://pebforum.com/threads/found-fit-for-duty-now-contesting-help.43067/
SHORT STORY:
husband was referred to MEB
went up for MEB and found FIT due to past evals
contested and asked for a FPEB
granted FPEB
went to FPEB with new medical evidence, new non-medical evidence, new statement from chief and command, neuro, doctors, me [spouse] and co-workers.
found FIT at FPEB due to past evals.
was told by lawyer this was baffling, he needed to submit a PFR [petition for relief]
petition for relief came back denied - found FIT again, due to past evals
i am asking for help in understanding this - and also doing a little bit of venting, so please nobody take this the wrong way. i am in NO WAY stating my husband's condition is better or worse than ANYONE's. please know my questions and venting merely stem from concern.
my husband has been suffering with severe, chronic [daily] migraines for over seven years now. he has gone to countless doctors, ER visits, neurologists, pain psychologists and even lost his eyesight for 16 days because of one of the 13-14 medications he has been placed on like a guinea pig over the past several years. they have done scans, MRI, CATSCAN, X-RAY, bloodwork.....i could go on.
but because my husband isn't a slacker [not saying people who are found UNFIT are slackers - again, this is just what we have been told, not our words], he is being found FIT. and not to take away from my husband's accomplishments [because he will tell you the same thing] he isn't at the largest command, either. they are basing their decision off of his past evals and the fact that he made junior sailor of the quarter and year at his small command almost two years ago. again.....almost two years ago.
there has got to be something we can do. his FPEB was all over the place, and he felt they were more focused on figuring out what he was going to be doing when he left the military. they asked him about linkedin pages and whether he had been offered a position outside of the military - which he obviously has not and he doesn't have any linkedin page, either. is there something we can do from here? going to the board of corrections of medical records, or whatever it is, sounds like it would do nothing for him other than take out things that have happened to him, medically. and that is something we do not want at this time.
it pains me - makes me sick, whatever - to see a 30 year old give nine years of his life to the military and suffer to the point of now severe depression. he puts on a brave face at his command but is unable to do so when at home. the botox that has somewhat helped is now starting to not work as well due to building a tolerance to it. at 30 years old.......going to a pain psychologist and being on 4-5 daily medicatiions on top of botox injections every three months....but this is normal to the military?
is this normal for the navy/military?
is there something else we can do?
his neuro said he will be putting him back up for another medboard in six months, because he says in no way shape or form should my husband be serving - is there something he needs to do more that he hasn't this last time around? [we feel that he has done every thing, as do the lawyers and PEBLOs and doctors]
is there something, as a spouse, i can be doing to help him with his being depressed from the constant pain he is in? [he will be making an appointment to see someone - just asking for advice that can come as assistance to me]
thank you if you made it this far.