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Hi @bruce0712 and @joyhead1

I was thinking about you both and wondering how you were doing. You both served in the military and had post-polio syndrome. How are you doing? Has the VA been able to help you?

I look forward to hearing from you. Will you post an update at your convenience?

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I am fatigued every day, making it tough to get to the point where I can go out somewhere earlier in the day but eventually by mid or late afternoon I can get my body going well enough to go for walks. May soon be able to return to the gym to do the cycling. Got covid vaccine number 2. That had a few complications initially. Also, my tremors bother me every day, with the maximum medication allowed for my age, this still troubles me and I miss my excellent penmanship skills that I lost by about age 40. I cannot even fill out forms by hand, sometimes I have a friend fill things out for me. The VA acknowledges being exposed to dioxin (agent orange) but they deny any relationship to my problems (which include ED issues since about age 22) with the exposure unless a medical doctor was to express an opinion that this is likely the cause, so far I cannot find any doctor willing to make such a statement, so I continue to suffer and those issues alone make me sad. I just try to hang in there and try to live as normal a life as i can, knowing that there are others out there who have far bigger problems than I have, and my heart goes out to those people. The VA is about to re-evaluate my PTSD from a few incidents that happened while I was in the service, just knowing I have to re-live those incidents again raises my anxiety levels and adds to sleep issues.