It's never the argument that was I medically released. The argument is about the injuries and the fact that I've lost track of how many times I have been required to prove my disability. I thought once would have been great, especially because there's no miracle cure to make my feet grow back and make my injuries suddenly go away. I was also awarded a disability rating for the disability award, the old lump sum. I was given a rating of over 100%, so I was given 108% disability rating, which to me would indicate that I am completely and totally impaired. Well, that is not the definition that I was briefed on by Veterans Affairs, so I had to provide yet more evidence that I, in fact, had this disability, even though I had been rendered over 100% as a disability rating.
The fact that there's this extra link I have to go through to prove that I have this total impairment just to me is so demoralizing, so absurd. The amount of stress that has put on me and my family is just ludicrous. Every time I bring it up and talk to people, everybody is kind of stunned by this, yet here we are, years later, and the shocked faces remain but nothing has changed.