Yes, for the back injury.
For the operational stress injury, the lawyer assigned to me by the Bureau of Pensions Advocates advised me that, given how VRAB was working and how their decisions were coming out, it would be a waste of time to ask for an appeal at that time. You get only a certain number of appeals, and if you use them, that's it. So I decided with the lawyer and my psych team that it was just not worth going through.
I had received an initial approval after a lengthy fight. Right around the time of my release, I was finally approved for major depression by Veterans Affairs. We're still in the process of trying to get them to accept and acknowledge the PTSD.