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John A. Brandecker, Director, Hunter Holmes McGuire Medical Center, 1201 Broad Rock Road, Richmond, VA, 23249 Certified mail: 7003 0500 0004 5223 9646
CC: Honorable Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary, Veterans Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, D.C., U.S.20420 Certified mail: 7003 0500 0004 5223 9493

Document posted at Timism.com\Timism\BBNfo\VetAdmn\2014\Bandecker-Benefits14Mar24.htm
Complaint Index: Timism.com\VA.htm

Dear Mr. Brandecker,

Thank you for your March 12, 2014 letter in response to my letter dated February 4, 2014.

Having been blind-sided by the unannounced revocation of my veteran medication benefit, I would like to know if other benefits have been canceled.

  1. If I have an emergency, will I be turned away from a Veterans Administration Emergency Room? While I do not want healthcare to extend my natural life, I do want the means to keep me alive until I have successfully launched Timism.com.
  2. Should I have an illness that requires hospitalization, do I have the veteran benefits and rights to hospitalization? Or, have they been revoked without my knowledge?
  3. Are any other benefits revoked?

Once again, I do not know of any information that can be provided beyond which the V.A. already has on my narcolepsy that was behind my V.A. anti-narcoleptic medicine of a decade. I was treated privately for many years prior to two V.A. doctors prescribed the medication. The remission of narcolepsy is a rarity

In discussing this with others, they all agree that something is strange. Furthermore, the conclusion is that if I jump through the hoops that it will be decided to not prescribe the medication. My merely verbally echoing what is in V.A. medical records will not change your knowledge of my condition unless the records have been altered. Some hidden agenda is at work.

And, once again, I am not a threat to others tho I reserve the right to self-damage, immolate or de-jugulate. Please do not have another social worker call to badger me with the question, "Am I potentially harmful to myself." What honest suicidal person is going to give an answer other than one to be left alone?

Please let me know what other benefits have been unilaterally necrosed without my knowledge.

Sincerely with certainty,

Robert S. Barnett (6096)
3600 Anne Street
Richmond, VA 23225
demcapu@comcast.net

P.S. By virtue of my narcolepsy dominating my life (sleep episodes of eight to 15 per day, no warning, and no night sleep beyond 3 or 4 hours) and the divergence of time and dime to find out why, I am not able to focus on sharing my research into global warming and PTSD. If I did not think I had something to share, I would not care.