tharin4prez
PEB Forum Regular Member
Good afternoon all!
I'm sure if I took more time than the past 20 minutes to look, I may have found my answer somewhere on here ... but as it is my head is swimming w/ thoughts of I now need to grow up and find job.
Anyway ... just got my results back this afternoon after a wait of 8 weeks. 60% disability -- 50% for apnea and 20% for low back problems.
This is what I find disturbing ... I have had back problems since I originally hurt it in 1990. 2 surgeries, 2 pins, 6 screws and a severe case of Osteomyelitis caused during the 2nd surgery that almost took my life and left my spine curved differantly than when I went in the hospital ... which also caused me to have even more pain throughout the day than I had before the surgery. ... I get handed 20% ??! To top that off, I now limp because I'm curved funny. So because I have a hard time sleeping at night I get 50%? Where's the rationale?
Either way ... what I simply wanted to ask was this ...
My local PEBLO person doesn't seem to be able to break my questions down in lamens terms. Being forced out at 19 yrs 9 mon. will that hurt me in the long run? I know there's a long math formula that tells me what I should get after I final out ... having said that though don't I lose a rather large chunk by NOT completing 20 FULL years? I may have been able to go over the 20 year mark had I not been forced (or will be forced) to sell back 60 days of leave. My outprocessing days coupled w/ leave would have taken me over the 20 year mark if allowed to start today.
I'm sure if I took more time than the past 20 minutes to look, I may have found my answer somewhere on here ... but as it is my head is swimming w/ thoughts of I now need to grow up and find job.
Anyway ... just got my results back this afternoon after a wait of 8 weeks. 60% disability -- 50% for apnea and 20% for low back problems.
This is what I find disturbing ... I have had back problems since I originally hurt it in 1990. 2 surgeries, 2 pins, 6 screws and a severe case of Osteomyelitis caused during the 2nd surgery that almost took my life and left my spine curved differantly than when I went in the hospital ... which also caused me to have even more pain throughout the day than I had before the surgery. ... I get handed 20% ??! To top that off, I now limp because I'm curved funny. So because I have a hard time sleeping at night I get 50%? Where's the rationale?
Either way ... what I simply wanted to ask was this ...
My local PEBLO person doesn't seem to be able to break my questions down in lamens terms. Being forced out at 19 yrs 9 mon. will that hurt me in the long run? I know there's a long math formula that tells me what I should get after I final out ... having said that though don't I lose a rather large chunk by NOT completing 20 FULL years? I may have been able to go over the 20 year mark had I not been forced (or will be forced) to sell back 60 days of leave. My outprocessing days coupled w/ leave would have taken me over the 20 year mark if allowed to start today.