Life got worse for Navy Widow Denise Sole

NAVY WIDOW PUNISHED BY THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
Posted on February 06, 2008 by thorne



by Rick Thorne



Not long ago Denise Sole's email appeared in my email box. You may not recognize Denise by name but her fiery spirit is overwhelming to say the least. Initially Denise contacted me offering her emotional support concerning my ongoing battle in receiving extended benefits from Social Security and the Veterans Administration.



While trading emails I quickly realized Denise was getting the shaft by the VA. In 2004 she appeared on the ABC program Primetime as part of a news story discussing the plight of veterans and the broken health care system run by our federal government. Her husband Terry Soles served in the Navy during the Vietnam War.........



His wife, Denise, states Terry was one of countless casualties treated while in the confines of the VA health establishment.




In 1998, Terry went to the VA hospital in Cleveland, Ohio complaining of severe pain and persistent diarrhea. Not long after the doctors removed a small cancerous growth from Terry's esophagus, and was told this was not the cause of his severe pain and persistent diarrhea.



Over the next two years Terry's terminal condition persisted. Denise, Terry's wife, stated the VA gave him painful tests and repeatedly lost his test results. She also commented Terry was seen by numerous resident doctors, never having a primary care doctor and there was little consistency, as far as his care was concerned while at the VA hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

Denise also stated, "Terry was 6-foot and weighed more than 200 pounds before he got sick. Within 2 years of his death Terry barely weighed 80 pounds. Some of the VA doctors thought his problem was merely psychosomatic, as was written in a letter, not by a VA doctor, but a Risk Manager, but I knew better, she said." Deathly ill, October 8, 2000 Terry was finally rushed to a private hospital failing to recognize his own son at the time. Denise was questioned concerning Terry's condition by ER doctors, where she had to explain he had been being treated by the VA at the time. Finally their doctors confirmed what Denise had thought all along and that was her loving husband was now dying.
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