2quilt:

I have not read your article yet, I am doing that after this post.

Dave has a 55% disability rating through the VA, and honestly it's low. I don't understand with all the health issues he has, and the severity of the problems, that he has been denied twice. We retained an attorney, but that will only help once we get a hearing date set- which we have been waiting on now for over 2 years.

The only thing I can think of it that SSD is trying to weed people out- especially since a large number of soldiers are coming back from service with severe health problems.

I am off to read your post and hopefully make some progress this week.