VA denies evidence of disabilities.

Robert M. Taylor

590 Southern Pines Drive Myrtle Beach, SC 29579 SrRobertTaylor@aol.com (843) 267-8442 (Home/Cell) June 3, 2013 Congressman Tom Rice 2411 North Oak Street Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 Re: Your letter Dated May 28, 2013 Attn: Andrew Mims Dear Congressman Rice; Thank you for your prompt response to my email. Even though I voted for you, I don‘t know you personally. Your friend and mine, Sandy Springs, introduced you to me though my business. I use to cut her hair, and during her visits with me, she always spoke extremely highly of you. When I explained my problem and how complex it had become, she was almost positive you would be able to help me. Prior to voting for you, I had voted for Senator Scott and Congressman Brown before him. I would have certainly voted in your favor regardless of Sandy, because I feel your views of this country are very much inline with the way I feel this country needs to go. I am a supporter of the Republican Party, and have been for many years until recently. My current health situation has made it next to impossible for me to continue working therefore my financial means have changed drastically. I‘ve had to give up a 40 year career that I have loved dearly. Not too many people get to say that about their career. For the last year and a half I‘ve also had to be the primary caregiver for my wife who is under going cancer treatment for triple negative breast cancer. This has completely drained me of any extra funds. My apologies to the Republican Party. I understand the complexity of governing and trying to help, and at the same time trying to please those in need. That‘s why I was so hesitant to even contact you. I felt my problems with the VA concerning my health, is my problem. You have much more important things to deal with than an old man with a health problem. I really don‘t know where to begin, since this problem with the VA has grown to such a large capacity, it has overwhelmed me. To find out that my doctors had been deceiving me concerning my health, has had such a devastating effect on me, that I feel completely helpless. In order for you too truly understand the full scope of my problem, I should start at the beginning, and have you make determination to see if you can help me. You may not be able to. This may be beyond your capacity as a Congressman. I don‘t know. It‘s almost like the current IRS Scandal, no one wants to talk about it, and take responsibility. Maybe it‘s because I‘m a conservative that can be vocal at times. In the spring of 2005, after being treated for four (4) years (2001 thru 2005) for what I was told to me to be, “Prostatitis”, by a Doctor Villanueva, at the Ralph H. Johnson Myrtle Beach VA Clinic, I was finally diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. For four (4) years they pump me full of Cipro, one of the strongest antibiotics know to man. Even though they knew I was a Vietnam Vet, that had been exposed to agent orange, and Prostate Cancer being one of the know disease that effect Vietnam Vets. Four (4) years of digital rectal exams that truly showed how swollen and disfigured my prostate had become. It took my primary care takers death, to get another doctor. The new doctor, a Doctor Wagner was shocked at how long I had been treated for prostatitis. He then broke the rules (he was new) and agreed with me that I should have been seen by a specialist in urology at the Charleston VA Hospital. Four (4) years too late to save my prostate and was given one choice, a radical prostectomy. If that wasn’t the worst of my problems, the Cipro that they had given me for those four (4) years, had destroyed my immune system, and as a result, I was unable to heal from my surgery. It took from January 23rd of 2006, (the date of my surgery), thru August of 2008, where I was still oozing infected puss from the surgery scar. I finally healed a few weeks after that last doctor‘s visit. My doctors said they didn‘t know what was wrong with me. Unknown to me, at this same time, because of the destruction of my immune system, it was being attacked by a variety of diseases. I first contracted a severe case of “Reynaud‘s Syndrome”, then “Fibromyalgia”. Next came, the “Cluster Migraine Headache‘s”, and Neuropathy then the Vision problems caused by the Fibromyalgia. All symptoms of “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” All of these diseases over a four year period. For four (4) more years my doctors were in total denial of my conditions, and tried to make me believe it was all in my head. They first tried to make me think it was part on my recovery from Prostate Cancer. After the first two (2) years they would just say my recovery was just slower than others. They wouldn‘t even write down that we discussed it. In 2010, I finally had to take my wife with me for an appointment to verify that I had been complaining about this for quite awhile, and forced them to look at my problems. Someone told me if you take a witness in with you, they can‘t ignore you any longer. I finally got them to send me to Charleston to have a specialist look at me. I had finally discovered the secret to getting VA Health Care, is to get you doctor to write down in your medical file that there is a problem, before they will treat you. Unless they write down what‘s wrong with you, or at least what they may think is wrong with you, you can‘t be treated for that condition, and the doctors at the VA are not allowed to give a medical opinion that may help any of my pending VA cases. After years of denials from my doctors at the VA, I knew if I could just prove to them what was happening to me, maybe someone would listen. I had to do my own research into what was actually happening to me, and if there were any treatments for what was happening. Through my research I have discovered that I have contracted Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and along with the disease I have already contracted, I‘m now prone to an array of other disease from Alzheimer‘s Disease, MS, and worst Supra Nuclear Palsy, A disease that is so horrifying I hate to even think about it, my mother died from it. But the list is even longer than this. The problem I have is, If the VA acknowledges that their treatment of me caused the existing problems I now have to live with, it would certainly help my case. So the VA won‘t even acknowledge what‘s happening to me and as a result of their denial, they won‘t even treat me for the conditions that I now have. 1.

There is evidence all over the internet about the damage that Cipro has cause to the immune system of so many people since 1988. Type in “Cipro side effects” and look for yourself. It‘s has been linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. 2.

We also know that the diseases I have, are listed as auto-immune system diseases and symptoms of CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. 3.

Not only did the Army and the VA have this evidence of the destruction Cipro could cause in large doses from the 1991 Gulf War Experiment. They gave all the service men that might have to go to the Gulf War, large doses of Cipro in case Sadam Husain used chemical weapons like Anthrax. Since then, the VA has been overwhelmed with treating all of the Vets from the Gulf War that contracted what they call Gulf War Syndrome. Including the Vets that never went, but were given Cipro just in case they might have to go, so they already knew before 2001 of the dangers of over use of Cipro. 4.

We also know that the reason the Army and the VA came up with the designation, Gulf War Syndrome, instead of calling it‘s true name, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, was so the VA and Army wouldn‘t have to pay compensation to the Vet‘s that were never deployed, or had Boots On The Ground. They learned that trick from how they treated the Navy Vets from Vietnam and the Agent Orange Experiment. It was in all the distilled water the ships made from the storm water run off from the land. They don‘t get Agent Orange compensation, even thought they have more know diseases cause by AO exposure than the Vets who had Boots On The Ground. Look it up. BlueWaterNavy.com You see, they are never going to acknowledge that there treatment of me did this because it would open the flood gates of other vets trying to claim compensation for the same injuries I have while on duty. The VA can‘t afford or want that many new service connected Veterans. Just like with the Vietnam Vets. Needless to say, I have never had any of my current problems address, and I have a list of 25, including 2 major surgeries, and a colonoscopy that was due in July 2012. I‘ve had prostate cancer and I suffer from PTSD, which I‘m currently rated @ 80% Disabled for those two (2) disabilities. I have separate pending claims for; Unemployability I filed in 2007. This was base my inability to return to gainful employment after my Radical Prostectomy for cancer in 2006. Fibromyalgia and Reynaud‘s Disease I was finally able to file in 2010. Secondary to my treatment and residuals of Prostate Cancer once the doctors at MUSC confirmed it, but not its cause. They think it may have been from the trauma from the Radical Prostectomy, but that would still make my disease service connected so no one will look for the cause. And my lower back injury filed originally in 1987 and re-filed in 2010. All of my medical records truly show the extent of the damage when it accrued, and my continued treatment since leaving the service. There is NO DOUGHT that my current back problems are directly related to my service for this country and therefore there has been a clear and unmistakable error concerning my case. More important than my cases against the VA for my disabilities, is my health. They want acknowledge that there is anything wrong and therefore I can‘t get treatment at the VA for my health problems. It is a stain on this nation‘s honor that the Department of Veterans Affairs has become a deadlier and more difficult adversary to the American Veteran than any they have ever faced on the battlefield. Thank you for listening to my story. Sincerely, Robert M. Taylor A Dyeing and Disabled American Vietnam Veteran “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan–to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” –President Abraham Lincoln