Norm Weiderhaft
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Post by Norm Weiderhaft on Oct 26, 2009 11:59:07 GMT 9
Very interesting, I had cataract in one eye at 52 & the other at 55. Is there a pattern here. Maybe we can get trillions of $$$ from Uncle Sam. Just kidding......
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Post by dude on Oct 26, 2009 13:49:24 GMT 9
 Knock on wood, but none here even though it runs fairly rampant through my gene pool.
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Post by Bullhunter on Oct 27, 2009 8:38:26 GMT 9
Write a letter to the Veterans Administration (VA) and asked them.
Maybe its a rated condition.
I have ringing in the ears several times a week, comes and goes. I never knew what caused it but the VA said it was from being a Jet Engine Technician and working the flightline. It has a medical term and they gave me a rating for it.
If you don't write and ask you will never know.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Oct 27, 2009 10:04:55 GMT 9
I agree with Bullhunter. You never know what the VA may rate. I, too, got rated for hearing and was given hearing aids and batteries for life. Plus the extra money and CRSC funds. I was also rated for prostate cancer, because of Agent Orange at Da Nang. Anyone who is rated should also get hold of AF Personel Center and see if you qualify for CRSC. I got it for being a ramp rat. If you get it, they give you a lump sum payment, plus a monthly that is the same as your VA payment. You can contact them on line. www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?id=123085073Jim Too :god_bless_usa |
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Post by daoleguy A.J. Hoehn (deceased) on Oct 27, 2009 10:27:09 GMT 9
Good luck with the optical issues. At 57 I was told the same diagonosis. Can't afford the treatment though. The hearing thing is called Tinnitus. Loud jet engine noise (and flight line) will cause it. My AFSC and assignments stated that "aural damage was near certain of an occupational hazzard". Lost out on that. "Read the small print idiot" was pretty much what I was told. All I got on Agent Orange was a form letter from the VA in around 1981 warning me I had been exposed to it in Laos and Cambodia and it was a health risk. Nice of them. AJ |
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Post by Bullhunter on Oct 27, 2009 11:47:36 GMT 9
AJ, I encourage you to write the VA again. In 1981 they stated you had been exposed so fight for it.
My cousin was a U.S. Marine 1967-1969 in vietnam.
Years later he got rated 100% took him awhile to win it. Shame he died at 57 years old.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Oct 28, 2009 9:50:25 GMT 9
The URL below should take you to the list of ailments that the VA has connected to Agent Orange. If you have any of them and were in Nam when they were using Agent Orange, then contact the VA and get the process started to get some compensation. You won't lose anything by trying, but you might be losing a lot by not bothering to check. We don't get much for what we lived through, so it's not a gift to you, it's something you have coming for your service. www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/diseases.aspJim Too :god_bless_usa |
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Post by LBer1568 on Nov 29, 2009 3:33:16 GMT 9
I was only in MA-1 for 8 years but remember putting neon glow bulbs on window in mock-up and seeing them light up as antenna sweep them. I too got what my doctor called premature cataracts. First eye at 45 and second at 47. I have since had retina detachment in both. I tried VA, even including web based articles about emissions and cataracts. Guess what, they denied any knowledge of it.
Lorin Berry, CMSgt, Retired
529th FIS 1964-1967, Tyndall 1967-1971
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Post by lindel on Nov 30, 2009 23:49:30 GMT 9
No sign of cataracts here, last eye exam was last year tho.
Eight years in the Mock-Up, with transmitters running almost 24/7, and as often as not with me being very close!
Not to say it won't happen to me, but so far so good.
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Post by terry454 on Dec 7, 2009 4:33:23 GMT 9
I just this last year had eye issues, but at 68 the docs tell me it is part of the aging process. One cataract due to many surgeries after the retina detached. I only had 3.5 years on the MA1 Flight Line.
Terry
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Post by hypoxia on Dec 14, 2009 4:08:55 GMT 9
I had 6 years working F106 Comm, had a MA-1 guy zap me good once. I was leaning against the pitot tube and started feeling funny. Stomach got warm, just felt crappy suddenly. Looked around, saw someone in the cockpit, MA-1 guy hard at work with the radar on!
No adverse effects that I can pin down, no cataracts.
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Knock on wood, but none here even though it runs fairly rampant through my gene pool.
