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Subject: Re: agent orange thialand

Author:
Pedro Pena

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Date Posted: 08:55:25 05/27/06 Sat
In reply to: jimmy welch Former Sgt US ARMY 's message, "agent orange thialand" on 16:15:53 05/02/06 Tue

>I had a brief spell in sattahip,Thialand in Aug
>1970.My hands and arms were paralized for 10-15
>minutes and couldn't move,After extreme low back
>pain.I had laid on my bunk to rest.Utapo AFB medical
>personel coundn't find a reason for it.I never had any
>more trouble for 25 years.It started with a stroke
>like symtom with my right arms going numb.The rest is
>history tremers,Atrophy in both cellebras of the
>brain,extreme low back pain like in
>thialand,fatigue,high blood
>pressure,numbnessess,numbnesses in right arm and
>fingers,Left leg weakness and stiffness and numbness.I
>tried to get VA to help but said I wasn't in Vietnam
>when it occured.I was in vietnam a brief time in
>1966-67 and was exposed to agent orange but was gave
>only one year to put in claim.I didn't know what AO
>was untill 2002.I hope this will help some more
>understand the neurological aspect of AO.I finally
>applied for Social security and recieved disability in
>2004.It takes 2 years to get it after putting it
>in.The VA is in denial and we have to live with it
>untill they wake up are we die.I also served at Utapao AFB at Satthip, Thailand. I also have numbness in my arms and Diabetes 2. The social scecurity has already granted me disability and now I would like the VA to accept my claims of exposure to AO They have been denying me since 1992. Please send my any info available so I can get them to listen to me. Any and all info would help. Thanks

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[> Subject: Re: agent orange thialand

Author:
Gene Hartman
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Date Posted: 19:10:11 06/10/06 Sat

>I was at Tuy Hoa Vietnam, fron 1966-1967. Had the same type of problem, but with my legs, not my arms. Nobody could find anything wrong with me at that time and put me in a mental Hosiptal for five months before they discharged me. Then 16 years ago I found out that I had MS.

I had a brief spell in sattahip,Thialand in Aug
>1970.My hands and arms were paralized for 10-15
>minutes and couldn't move,After extreme low back
>pain.I had laid on my bunk to rest.Utapo AFB medical
>personel coundn't find a reason for it.I never had any
>more trouble for 25 years.It started with a stroke
>like symtom with my right arms going numb.The rest is
>history tremers,Atrophy in both cellebras of the
>brain,extreme low back pain like in
>thialand,fatigue,high blood
>pressure,numbnessess,numbnesses in right arm and
>fingers,Left leg weakness and stiffness and numbness.I
>tried to get VA to help but said I wasn't in Vietnam
>when it occured.I was in vietnam a brief time in
>1966-67 and was exposed to agent orange but was gave
>only one year to put in claim.I didn't know what AO
>was untill 2002.I hope this will help some more
>understand the neurological aspect of AO.I finally
>applied for Social security and recieved disability in
>2004.It takes 2 years to get it after putting it
>in.The VA is in denial and we have to live with it
>untill they wake up are we die.