A Man And His Ideas

Veterans' Benefit 38 USC 1725  Statues as an Information Model 38 USC 1725 is the Law about business relationships with veterans, DVA, community providers, private insurance, and others. This information model describes the business relationships. Technical Background Dictionary: An information model in software engineering is a representation of concepts and the relationships, constraints, rules, and operations to specify data semantics for a chosen domain of discourse. Typically, it specifies relations between kinds of things, but may also include relations with individual things. It can provide a sharable, stable, and organized structure of information requirements or knowledge for the domain context. Ontology Models – Formal structures (classification systems, assemblies, and parts, language) Affinity Models – Abstract structures (diagnostic, association, disassociation, discrimination, acceptance)   Social Models – Tribe structures (law, group dynamics, ...

Happy Birthday Jimmie Sept 22, 2012 Dear Jimmie, This is a letter I wrote to Jimmie Heuga , ski racer, MS champion, my pedal partner on my first 150 Bike MS ride. His was the inspiration for Can    Do MS in Vail. September 22 was Jimmie’s birthday and he died February 2010.   Two years later, on his birthday, I did a bike ride that was a challenge for me. This is a letter I wrote to him about the ride.      Dear Jimmie, This is a letter I wrote to Jimmie Heuga , ski racer, MS champion, my pedal partner on my first 150 Bike MS ride. His was the inspiration for Can    Do MS in Vail. September 22 was Jimmie’s birthday and he died February 2010.  Two years later, on his birthday, I did a bike ride that was a challenge for me. This is a letter I wrote to him about the ride.      On Saturday the 22nd, 4 friends and I rode a bicycle ride I tagged as the CanDo 50.  The ride heads west from Loveland. At th...

This post is about the VA creating regulations that are not compliant with the Law, engaging in acts of bureaucratic extortion and bureaucratic racketeering.   -- Ok, I am not a lawyer, so maybe the terms are expressions of frustrations. This article explains my use of the terms. Breaking the Law When a veteran has ER treatment at a non-VA facility, the VA will either pay-the-provider or reimburse-the-veteran. If the veteran does not have private insurance, the VA accepts the provider's bill. If the veteran has private insurance, that has copays and deductibles for the episode-of-care, the VA claims by Law the VA cannot pay the copays and deductibles. No statute in Law supports that claim. On September 11, 2017 at 3 AM, my wife, an Army vet, woke with pains in her chest.  The nearest VA hospital is in Cheyenne, more than an hour away. The VA directs veterans who have an emergency condition to seek treatment at a community provider.  I took my wife to the nearest ER...

MS Inside-Out: History of MS 1399, 1st diagnosed case of MS            Saint Lidwina of Holland            1380-1434             Diagnosed with MS at 19             MSer for 34 years!   May 1, 1945            a New York Times classified advertisement read:         “Multiple Sclerosis. Will anyone recovered from it            please communicate with the patient."               Placed by Miss Sylvia Lawry, Founder NMSS      March 11, 1946               The National Multiple Sclerosis Society founded.      1993 - first disease-modifying therapy       2020 Still no cause, no cure.

YOU ARE MY HERO When I give MS Ambassador talks, I always thank those listening with this recognition: When I rode my first Bike MS 150, wearing my first “I ride with MS” jersey, riders passing would call out “You're my hero.”  After about 100 miles, I realized, I am not the hero, but those out here riding to support the cure for MS are my heroes.  After thinking about heroes, I realized “hero” is an  acronym for Help Everyone, Respect Others . When you give time, talent, treasure and tenacity, you show respect. For me, tenacity is the most important.  Never give up. Each of you is my hero. Thank you

Concurrent Complex Syndrome Inside-Out: For years I looked for a term that groups all the different interconnected complications with MS. In my "MS from the Inside-Out" study, an MS attack is a type of trauma. The factors of trauma are injury, emotional, social and disability. The term "Complex Trauma Syndrome" acknowledges the complicated interdependent trauma factors. An MS attack inherits some characteristics from complex trauma syndrome plus adds the labyrinth effects from "Complex Fatigue Syndrome” caused by the physical, neurological and neuropsychological MS wounds. By thinking of the "MS syndrome"   as a layered complex group of symptoms whose characteristics are distinguished by inherited or innate. For example, the MS emotional symptom of an outcast is inherited but denial is innate. However, both outcast and denial are each complex syndromes within the group. The origin of a complex syndrome happens as the trigger from s...

The 40 Human Senses What are the senses? To answer what is a sense the first question is why do senses exist in animals? While all-natural living phenomena may have senses, the human phenomena with its brain can react to diverse sense stimulus. A sense is a particular natural neurological (CNS and PNS) facility producing neuropsychological (thinking) representation models.  These sense models are self-activated which, in turn, generate other models. Each generated model maintains traits from the parent. A generated sense model may have one or more parents. Nociceptive pain Examples of nociceptive pain are a cut or a  broken bone . Tissue damage or injury initiates signals that are transferred through peripheral nerves to the brain via the spinal cord. Pain signals are modulated throughout the pathways. This is how we become aware that something needs attention. Neuropathic pain Neuropathic pain is pain caused by damage or disease that affects the nervou...

Mood Change Process The brain is always in a mood state. To read these words, the brain will invoke and revoke many moods. The term mood is very overloaded. 

Response to the VA Inspector General Report of 8/6/2019 --General, Do You Know the Definition of a Veteran's Benefit? Update February 2020 Original August 2019 General do you know the definition of a veteran's benefit. Don't be embarrassed, nobody in the DVA doses either. There are volumes and volumes of examples but no definition. At the end of this post is the correct definition.  The VA Office of Inspector General on August 6, 2019, released a report "The VA Office of Inspector General on August 6, 2019, released a report " Non-VA Emergency Care Claims Inappropriately Denied and Rejected ".  While thorough and the recommendations are valid, it's incomplete because the recommendations avoid fixing the main source of the problems.  Claims Inappropriately Denied and Rejected ".  While the recommendations are valid, it's incomplete because the recommendations avoid fixing the main source of the problems. Sir, you should be embarrassed. ...