{"id":137168,"date":"2023-02-17T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137168"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T19:39:04","slug":"veteran-ends-his-life-after-va-denies-his-request-related-to-pain-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=137168","title":{"rendered":"Veteran ends his life after VA denies his request related to pain management"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rayford Hill advanced a request, to the VA, to pay for a Neurolumen Pain Management device to help manage constant pain. This device reportedly aids pain reduction, with claims of reduced need for pain medications. The VA denied the request. The veteran made funeral arrangements, and then took his life behind the mortuary that would handle his funeral service.<\/p>\n

From News Channel 8 on your side:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“He told me it felt like pins and needles were just sticking and jabbing in his legs and his feet,” Hill said. “He said it was just a constant pain.”<\/p>\n

Hill said during what turned out to be her husband’s final doctor’s appointment last September, his request for the VA to pay for a Neurolumen Pain Management device was denied by his VA doctor.<\/p>\n

Hill called a nurse at her husband’s doctor’s office the day after the appointment to ask why the request was denied.<\/p>\n

“[An assistant said] ‘she can’t take your call, but she’ll call you back,’ ” Hill said. “That was September 9. I never got a phone call back from her.”<\/p>\n

According to emails sent to the physician from Neurolumen Provider Specialist Kim Davis, the device has been prescribed in VA facilities more than 600 times.<\/p>\n

Ninety-three percent of the patients reported a “reduction in pain” and 34 percent said they needed fewer medications after using the device, according to Davis.<\/p>\n

During the few weeks after the denial, Hill planned his own funeral, then ended his life behind the mortuary where the service would be held.<\/p>\n

“I’m sorry. You just cannot imagine,” Hill said through tears. “You’ll never know what it feels like if someone tells you someone you love and have lived with 28 years has shot and killed himself.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

News Channel 8 on your side has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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