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06-05-2014, 05:43 PM | #1 |
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VA Waiting List KILLED MY FATHER
My Father passed away 3/24/2008 at the US Soldiers Home in Washington DC. My Father was the 1941 Navy poster Boy. It is how he died that haunts me. 2.5 years on VA waiting list and is dead I visited my father every year up to 2007. He lived at the US Soldiers Home in Washington DC for 20 years. He was in the LaGarde Bldg. in room 506. He was 83 years old and had no teeth. He was a dental tech in the US Navy and for him to lose his teeth bothered me deeply. He also had dementia and was under US Soldiers Home Frederica care. Frederica kept me updated and we had meetings on my fathers care. It was in our Nov 16, 2006 meeting that I asked about getting teeth for my father. Frederica respond to me with, your father will be put on a VA list. I asked the same question in Nov 14, 2007 meeting about where are my father’s teeth to hear Frederica say your father is still on a VA list. My father died while eating a steak with a nurse close to him. Someone gave him a steak to eat when he was on a liquid diet until he receives his teeth. The Nurse had to go help another and left my father alone to chew on a steak with no teeth. He tried to swallow the steak and choked. He fell on the floor and choked to death. The Nurse found him on the floor lifeless and tried to give him CPR. He died on the way to the hospital. I am USAF Veteran and I saw first hand about VA waiting list at US Soldiers Home in Washington DC. This Father day I will miss my hero. He is in my heart I saw the news about the 1973 VA Records Fire that burned my father records about his Navy 1941 Poster Boy. Thanks to my mother for having pictures showing me my hero in true form. Please hug and love on your parents.
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06-07-2014, 12:36 AM | #2 |
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