August 21 - Vent

I just wanted to Vent and let my story be heard..............My husband was diagnosed with CANCER on July 14th and time is crucial the VA has known this since day 1 but yet making us wait and we had the doctors all set up to do emergency surgery and set up Chemo (from the time his was hospitalized) but the VA said NO they will not pay for outside care he just has to wait for the VA My husband has an appt on Aug 29 to be evaluated (the VA has all his paper work from the previous hospitals) then the VA will set up the surgery date but who knows when they will be and the VA hospital is 4 hours away which i don't think he can handle at this point. The oncologist in Pueblo Co (which is closer to us) called the VA telling them the urgency of my husbands surgery but the VA didn't care. So i have my husband at home dying. I thought the bill Obama signed was to allow Vets to get outside care? I have spoke to several VA patient advocates on the phone and have been laughed at, also been told that the bill would take several months to be active, also was told we just have to wait so i told the person i was talking i guess my husband will just die at home and she told me is there any other questions i said no she said good bye. NO CARE NO COMPASSION. For someone healthy just getting a checkup the wait time is no problem but to someone with CANCER time is crucial it is in his right kidney and both lungs and he is losing weight daily and getting weaker but we just have to WAIT.