The Board has determined that additional vocational rehabilitation training is not reasonably feasible due to the veteran's service-connected and non-service-connected disabilities, which prevent him from achieving his chosen vocational goal of opening a barber training facility.
The deciding factor: VA found that the effects of the veteran's disabilities prevented him from successfully achieving his vocational goal.
- Claimed conditions
- post-operative hidradenitis, diverting colostomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 4, 2008
- Citation
- 0818404
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 is granted as the rectourethral fistula with diverting colostomy, cystectomy, and ileal conduit diversion was caused by VA care without his informed consent.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board has granted the veteran's claims for service connection for sacral decubitus ulcers and diverting colostomy, finding that these conditions are secondary to his service-connected gastrointestinal disability.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The veteran seeks service connection for a diverting colostomy and an infection of the tailbone, both claimed as secondary to his service-connected chronic inflammatory bowel disease. The Board has determined that additional development is needed due to procedural defects in VCAA notice.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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