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on a list of people they can call if they need someone to do a lecture or something like that. I have taught some lectures at that school, and some at the Air Force Graduate School.
I think that treatment for exposure to events during deployment is absolutely appropriate. Seeking PTSD and deployment experience related treatment is completely fine. It is not something that can be ignored or denied based on the number of deployments a Veteran has gone on as a Veteran can develop PTSD from a single, or multiple, deployments. I do not, in any way, view PTSD as a weakness. I see it as an example of how a variety of personalities are impacted by wartime events.
I do have a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) diagnosis. I do deal with anxiety but it isn't because of deployment, it is because of my diagnosis with Melanoma and being told I only had months to live. Something like that would stress anybody out. I was not injured during deployment but I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Melanoma. The treatment included eight surgeries, 1.5 feet of small bowel removed, three abdominal surgeries, and four brain surgeries including removal of my right temporal lobe. Several chemotherapy treatments and two gamma knife treatments were also employed to fight the cancer. I am still undergoing chemotherapy treatments every 12 weeks but the surgeries have resulted in multiple effects including short term memory loss, balance/stability problems, migraines and other issues. The multiple treatments I have received are appropriate and aggressive against my cancer. Without FDA approval of several of my treatments were literally approved within weeks before each treatment was implemented for my case. It is unknown what actually caused the cancer. The initial tumor was on my left adrenal gland, resulting in its removal. The first tumor removed was measured as 12
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