Al's Garage (Ep 2): WTFO?

WHAT THE FUCK ... OVER?

Al's Garage Podcast (Episode 2) - Formerly known as the MAD as HELL Podcast and so on and so forth, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada .. C.T. is spiraling and nobody gives a shit ... just 60 views of Episode 1 last week, 0 likes / 0 comments, WHAT'S THE FECKING POIT FOLKS? IF I DON'T GET HELP SOON, A LIVE SUICIDE IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
My life has been you!

(00:06):
So, I want you to get up now.
I want all of you to get up out of your chairs.
I want you to get up right now, and go to the window,
open it, and stick your head out and yell,
I'm as mad as hell, I'm not gonna take this anymore!

(00:35):
Hi, C.T. Sorrentino here again.
It's been a couple weeks, I believe, no idea actually.
Nothing's happened.
Sometimes they're getting worse.
Honestly, I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it to the States,

(01:01):
physically, by airplane.
They keep getting weaker every day,
the nausea, lost a bunch of weight, so on and so forth.
Just going downhill and not getting any response.

(01:22):
Still waiting to hear from UCLA,
which would be really good, because they would assess my physical stuff,
all the symptoms from the long COVID,
and so on, and as well as the psychological issues going on.

(01:45):
Many an intense, so really no update.
I sit on my ass, watch TV, sleep, repeat.
That's been my life for the past five, six months.

(02:09):
Honestly, nobody gives a shit.
I've been trying to get help for the longest time,
it's part of the reason I went to Portland, Oregon,
in August, was to get some help, was there for two months,
and only got the most basic tests done.

(02:32):
I saw one doctor in the over 60 days that I was there,
had a bunch of telehealth appointments,
because they're all working from home, folks.
The idea is telecommuting.
My doctor actually had, I had one telehealth appointment with my doctor,

(02:58):
Dr. Gouaou, or whatever her name is, in Vancouver.
One reason I'm returning to the States,
and I don't mean as to sound racist or anything, but it probably will.
The problem with care I've had here in Portugal is that they don't speak English,

(03:21):
and it's very difficult to communicate, especially medical stuff,
to someone who doesn't speak English.
The PCM they assigned me, Dr. Gouaou, or whatever,
doesn't have a great command of the English language.
I found that very frustrating.
We got little accomplished in our first telehealth appointment,

(03:46):
and then we were supposed to meet in person, in person appointment.
She wanted to get to know me, really get to know the veteran, do the right thing.
The day before that appointment,
I guess she decided she was going to work from home that day,
and so they converted her over to a telehealth appointment,

(04:11):
and I said to kiss my ass, you know.
If you can't bother seeing me in person, forget about it.
I had so many telehealth appointments while I was there, it was very sad.
So basically in 60 days, I got nothing accomplished.

(04:36):
On top of that, my VA disability claim, my PAC claim,
went totally to shit because of the veterans of foreign wars,
my VSO guy who was managing my claim,

(05:04):
managing my claim and submitted my claim and was supposed to be following my claim
and helping me with my claim and telling me the VA when I was going to be in the USA
for 60 days and so on and so forth.
Submitted my claim wrong, so several things that I specifically told them

(05:29):
in my initial email that I wanted included my claim, like my PTSD,
wish they missed in 2007, like my knees, like my cervical spine, you know.