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I had a concussion well after AD retirement. The SOCOM doc became concerned when it did not get better. At the 6-month mark he sent me to a specialist in Tampa. After a few short tests he stated that I have a TBI. He then scheduled a specialist to come in and they hooked up the machines. He mapped it back to hard parachute openings and landings as well as 10-years of eating flashbangs and breaching charges. I was the #1 or 2 man in the stack when we were doing the breaching with no shields and only 1-meter stand-off. I ate a bang when the #3 man’s bang bounced off the door jam and went between the #1 man and me and exploded on my chest.
The VA Poly Trauma Clinic looked at all of the documents and did more tests. They determined that I have TBI related vision, hearing, vertigo, speech, and memory issues. They prescribe me special glasses and hearing aids that help greatly. The mental health folk got involved they did their stuff and diagnosed me with PTSD on top of the TBI. The test they gave me cannot be faked and were very extensive, some lasted for 4 hours.
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