The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy, adjustment disorder, bowel incontinence, cervicitis, bladder incontinence, ovarian cyst rupture, and meralgia paresthetica of left thigh, have rendered her unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities preclude her from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation due to their combined effect on multiple body systems.
- Claimed conditions
- total abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, adjustment disorder, bowel incontinence, cervicitis, bladder incontinence, ovarian cyst rupture, meralgia paresthetica of left thigh
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- April 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19130836
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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