UCLA's Operation Mend Put Last Nail In Disabled Combat Veteran's Coffin

I can neither wait for nor work with an organization that has such little respect for disabled veterans Tiffany.

We were told eight weeks ago that UCLA's decision process would take two weeks. I told Cherie very clearly at that time that I have been in a crisis since December 7th with a suicide attempt on December 9th, yet there is zero sense of urgency at UCLA and two months later I am being told that nothing will happen for a few more months. Really?

Who is the grantor for Operation Mend? Board of Directors? Do they know how disabled combat veterans are being treated at UCLA?

I am sick and tired of being disrespected and ignored by every so-called veteran's organization in our country because it seems as though nobody cares if I live or die. I continue to be disrespected time after time after time and I am done.

Is this the way a program for the most broken humans in the world should be run? It seems as though UCLA either doesn't have a clue how to treat us or simply doesn't care about America's disabled veterans.

My wife could have gone to Italy to take care of her sick mother and I could have flown to the USA, like I will have to do now, and get the help I so desperately need TWO MONTHS AGO at a US emergency room if Cherie would have been honest, explaining the process much more clearly from the start. We have been sitting on our thumbs, waiting for a decision that still has not come after two months and I have been suicidal the entire time, but nobody at UCLA sems to care as I continue to get sicker and sicker. Our emails requesting updates have gone unanswered.

I have lost what little trust or confidence I had in UCLA to save my life. I don't actually expect anything to be done about my concerns because, like all bureaucracies, UCLA could obviously care less about people, individual patients, and is more concerned about policies, processes, and protecting your own employees than helping patients.

You obviously have no intention of helping me any time soon, so withdraw me from consideration for Operation Mend. I give up, you win, happy? I'll be dead very soon.

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
I'm so fucking tired

(00:21):
just found out from UCLA that they were close to helping me

(00:47):
and I've been waiting for eight weeks they told me it was gonna take two weeks
I've been waiting for eight weeks and I found out last night that if me except me

(01:09):
then it's gonna be another couple months and there's no guarantees you know
you don't fuck UCLA
they don't know how to treat fucking veterans nobody knows how to treat

(01:32):
veterans I've been disrespected big door shit on by every veteran
organization no demand the VA the VFW save American veterans

(01:58):
we did warrior project operation bad warriors fucking whatever they all are
fucking ignore me nobody is a fuck my kids don't even give a fuck

(02:32):
me abandoned me but I needed a most ungrateful fucks I never thought they'd
turn their backs on me abandon me but they did what I needed the most on

(02:53):
Christmas day the fucking dog even a

(03:23):
I'll call you tomorrow after I need you.
I just...
Exhausted.
I can't even think anymore.
I don't know what to do.
If it wasn't for my wife, I'd be dead.
I think I might anyway.

(03:46):
I've been begging for help for six months.
Hey, nobody gives a fuck.
Except for me, my wife.

(04:12):
You're gonna fuck yourselves.