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Originally Posted by Littul Jonn
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First off, you should take your disability. Pride has nothing to do with it, you earned it for your service so take your money. Hell donate it to a veterans charity if you feel like you're above the money but you're wasting it by not taking it.
Second, you definitely have some TBI at least because flashing a couple hundred bucks in cash in some shitty strip club to impress elves shows some definite signs of TBI.
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Well, at the time they were saying that I was too dangerous to be allowed to work as a Paramedic, that my "PTSD" would get someone killed. Um, it was the opposite. My first few calls the other guys on the scene thought I was a seasoned veteran of EMS because of how calm I was... reality is, when I was deployed I responded to car bombings that killed dozens of people, having to deal with a broken leg was no big deal... at all.
So it was really offensive to be doing well in college, and doing well in my EMS work, to have a doctor at the VA tell me that I couldn't do that type of work that I needed to spend the rest of my life on disability. I actually sought help originally because I just didn't feel right, I felt like I was insane or something, and I didn't used to feel like that.
And I for sure had a TBI, but it doesn't prevent me from being able to work. In a lot of ways my PTSD and TBI made me a better person because they mellowed me out a lot. Before I was really arrogant and hateful. Now I go out of my way to avoid conflict and to help other people when I can.