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unhappycamper

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2. I screwed up by back in Turkey ( ~ 1964)
Sun Oct 25, 2015, 06:34 AM
Oct 2015

My hearing is less than stellar due to a rather large explosion when the Chu Lai ammo dump went BOOM! the first night of Tet68.

I've been getting the (old people) mail to get new hearing aids for years.

A friend of mine told to me to list everything bad before I went to the VA. My list included hearing, no night vision, bad back, bad hip, bad knee, etc. etc.

The first thing the VA fixed was my eyes - cataract surgery. Then they gave me hearing aids. About eight or nine weeks after I signed up with them I received a letter from the VA telling me they tried to contact me at my home of record with no luck (I had moved to Boston in April 1973). I had been awarded a 30% disability on my back backdated to April 1973.

I took that VA letter down to the canna docs and received my MA Medical Marijuana Card.

I went up to the Salem dispensary on the second week they opened and picked up a 1/4 oz of two different flavors. The MA MM stuff works - my back literally untwisted about 10 minutes after initial application. It's high on CBDs and has zero, repeat zero THC.

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