Earlier this week I inquired how "Turk" was doing. Below is the reply that I
got. It's bad enough that "any" Veteran was treated this way, but this is one
of our own. Walter Reed made the headlines. How many other "VA"
facilities not in the headlines are giving "our" Veterans shoddy care?
Most of us are retired. Take the time. Write your congressman, senator, and
contact you local VFW. Raise a little hell. Maybe we can make a difference.
What I got from Lois.

Charlie, I finally got Bill out of the filthy VA Hospital in Indianapolis.
Charlie, he went 13 days without a bath. They store the wheel chairs in the
shower and didn't want to move them for Bill to have a shower every day.
Then the "Bitch of the South" as I have been called by some on the Danville
City Council, threw a fit. Bill got a bath, but not after taking a clean pair of
underwear and clean pj's, which he had to beg for; Bill laid them down on
top of a closed hamper. While Bill was having his shower a maintenance
man came in and took his clean underwear, threw them in a hamper and
took them away. I told Bill I would have walked stark naked down the hall
to my room. He didn't. The maintenance man came back and Bill told him
what had happened. The maintenance man brought everything back.
We got Bill into Carle Clinic, which is a teaching hospital,associated with
the University of Illinois. He has a physician right here in Danville who
specializes in leukemia. Bill went in for a blood draw and everything was
fine. However, His doctor wants him to take 5 days of chemo - a medication
that has worked very well in other hospitals - to keep the leukemia from
rearing it's head up again. He takes 5 days of chemo, 3 to 3-1/2 hours a day,
and doesn't have to go back for six weeks. It looks promising.