Judge ought to hit him with some hefty sanctions for the frivolous claims. He reminds me of the old Montana Freedmen and the ROT crowd.
Wonder if his back and leg issues would improve if he dropped about 100 pounds.
He could probly exercise more if his legs and back didnt hurt so much.
“””””””””Rose, a former teacher who is now disabled, served in the Marine Corps from 1983 to 1994. He is now on 100 percent disability due to service-related injuries that affected his back, spine and legs and caused other complications that leave him in constant pain. He is also a diabetic and has other medical conditions. “”””””””””””””””
He he needs to eat right and get in shape. Opioids won’t fix that. He also says he has his own health insurance. That means his private doctors won’t give him the crack either.
He is a beefier kind of guy
Maybe he put on a 100 lbs BECAUSE of his back and leg issues.
Wonder if his back and leg issues would improve if he dropped about 100 pounds.””
EXACTLY. Knew a guy who blamed EVERY single health issue he had on Agent Orange & his time in the Navy. Problem was-—he spent his entire tour of duty ON the ship OUT in the Ocean.
Then he had a ‘workmen’s Comp’ accident in his job. He wasn’t supposed to work on any payroll, and he got monthly chiropractic ‘adjustments’ and medical coverage for LIFE, etc.
He moved & ran into problems getting his ‘pain meds’.
So he goes to the VA & make a nuisance of himself there, and get more pain meds. Neither doc knows the other is prescribing meds. Thie guy starts making his own dosage times & amounts to stretch his supplies.
Enter the current levels of pain meds, and he jumps on that wagon, also. He is taking so many pain meds that his entire digestive tract is acting up & now the cure for that enters the picture. Suddenly, Activia Yogurt is his best friend.
Then the VA cut him off.....and I mean OFF. You should have heard him complain !!! His knees were bothering him. His back bothered him so much that was hunching over & constantly complaining.
In the midst of this-—especially in the past 2 years, he added over 110 pounds to his frame, so I confronted him about that....The extra weight HAD TO have an impact on his problems. I finally got out of the picture. Don’t talk to him anymore.
Speaking from experience if the Body hurts too much it’s very difficult if not impossible for someone to exercise to lose weight.
Are you positive that He is overweight?
Do you know what His BMI is ?
He could just be a large framed Man.
Have you walked a mile in His shoes ?
As always, losing weight would help, it cant hurt.
But we don’t know his injury or condition. I am around 200 lbs, and would be best at 180 if I could get there, but...even going to the gym for a year three times a week, I got down to 193, and that was it. I did used to be 225 at one point, but for the past five years, have hovered between 200-205.
Not everyone has issues because they are simply overweight and not getting enough exercise. When you have bone on bone due to degenerative disease over time, or disks so compressed, bulging and disruption due to something like a crash in a helicopter (certainly possible for a former Marine) you can’t exercise effectively. Sure, he could have a better diet, but we all know that diet alone rarely produces weight loss, though it can.
I have had chronic back problems for forty years, all related to a high school football injury. I was able to join the Navy (never telling them of my injury) and managed to go four years without hitting sick call for it. After I got out, I was able to do all the things I wanted to, play sports, etc, was not overweight (5’9”, 170) but I had times where I literally could not walk.
I had to be bodily carried off a softball field as a twenty-something year old, couldn’t move my legs in a meaningful way, and couldn’t get out of bed for a week, had to pee and poop in a bedpan, and didn’t return to a normal low-pain baseline in a month or two.
When I got married, this happened often enough to alarm my wife, who had never seen this side of me while dating even though she knew of it. On one occasion, as a 30+ year old man, I walked into work taking six inch steps like Tim Conway and being bent over at a 40 degree angle (like an 85 year old man with a walker) and when I walked into an exam room that morning to work with a patient, the little old lady looked at me in alarm and blurted out before I even introduced myself “My God! I thought you were a patient here!” She had seen me coming into work through the lobby in that crippled state and thought I was a patient, not an employee. But I had to work and had patients on my schedule with nobody to pick them up, so...I had to go to work.
And working in medicine I know...never, Never, NEVER get back surgery unless you are absolutely, positively near the end of your physical and mental rope. There is too much potential for complications and unintentional harm.
Shortly after that, my wife asked if I had ever thought of trying something like chiropractic or acupuncture, so I decided out of desperation to try chiropractic. That has made more difference in my life than all the medical painkillers and physical therapy put together, and it isn’t even close. It has made my life as close to normal as I could expect.
Recently, I had a disk that bulged out and a piece broke off in my back, but...there wasn’t anything they could do about it, so it had to run its natural course.
The point is, I know that feeling of not being able to function, and when you actually ARE able to function with a low level of pain, I am hesitant to do ANYTHING physical that might exacerbate the problem. I stopped playing all sports, even throwing a frisbee, I do try to ride and walk, but simply stepping off a curb I don’t judge correctly can wreck my back.
Just a few weeks ago, that is just what happened, I stepped off a curb not seeing it and jolted my back. I have spent in the last several weeks nearly $500 out of pocket in chiropractor visits, and my back stopped responding to treatment. I began to get desperate, thinking this was it, I was going to have to go back in, get worked up all over again, and have surgery or fusions, and out of desperation, I purchased an inversion table. Even just using it for a few days so far has made a significant difference to me, so...this is something I am very hopeful for.
Sorry to blather on with this, but the back is like a tooth, when it aches, it can take over your life, which is what mine has done.
We also don't know if he is on prednisone.
You ever try and lose weight when the drugs they stick you on cause it? Or you are not capable of walking more than a few feet before your back gives out or your GI tract goes into spasm?
My Gastro diet is minus all FIBER foods as I can’t digest them, that means all carbs and protein. Which I count to keep weight down. Still runs my glucose up no matter how hard I work at it. I’ve not had a apple except in the form of baby food in 5 yrs. Takes 4 hrs to digest 2 eggs and 2 slices of toast, that would take you 1 hr. Result swollen painful colon, impactions that have to be surgically removed. Ribs painfully pushed out of place due to the swelling. That doesn’t even touch the Degenerative spine, damaged heart, which are all caused by their FDA Approved drugs. I’ve not sued any one, dutifully report the drug reactions, not a 1 of the dangerous drugs that are Black Boxed are removed from the market. Still out there damaging more people. Walk the last 30 yrs in my shoes of failed surgery, drug reactions, ER/hospitalizations for those drug reactions, before you make a blanket judgement.
I didn’t chose this life, those dam* FDA drugs did. All I wanted was the Fibro pain and OA pain to stop so I could function. Each one brought more damage for life.
Mr Roe didn’t chose his life of pain either, being old and a Marine did. He is asking for decent care he’s not getting. That VA Center is one of the Worse in TN besides Memphis.