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You won't see my vet in most of these pics..because he was the one taking the pictures but rest assured ...He was with us. They had so much planned. Lynn and Jeffrey both are certified divers. They were going to teach diving. They wanted to do so much this year, but time has been cut short. Light a candle for the Byard family tonight.
There is a Kossack on here that helped bring awareness to the plight of the veterans.
She has brought much support to the veteran community and been a very good friend to me in veterans advocacy. She doesn't need our money.. She needs our love and prayers.
Lynn, or byardl, as we know her here, tonight is sitting on a bed with her dying husband.
The story goes like this. Her husband , a Navy vet, went blind and became an amputee in one week. Her son was deployed 5 times and still serving. She is a retired Chief Warrant Officer. She is 200 percent disabled. She is a fighter. She found out back in September that her husband had suffered congestive heart failure and two heart attacks but she found out a very strange way. She found out through his medical records as did he. He knew he was diabetic and had kidney problems but also found out that he was in complete kidney failure. The VA in Florida sucks..
There is just no other way to put it. Not all VA's are the same. Upon finding out that he was actually dying, he got a wheelchair and left the hospital. He did this back months ago and no one noticed he was gone. He got from Gainesville to Ocala and was gone for hours. A blind, amputee left the hospital and got a ride home and no one called for hours on end and when they did call, told Lynn he was probably watching TV in another patient's room. The man is blind....The man was missing and nothing was resolved until the next day. He never went back to the VA. He is dying at home.
He slipped into a coma tonight and we spent most of the holidays with them until I got an abcess and have been communicating daily via phone. Tonight we spoke and she
requested our own Moral Monday preacher from the Meetup... Pastor Robert to pay a vigil prayer with her. I made the call.
She told me she did not want anyone, especially our little one to remember him in the state he is in now. Lynn has been a hero in service and continues to as she advocates for veterans... She is a true Kossack and has worked her buns off running here to there for disabled vets including mine. When Jack attended the Mindfulness Project in Arizona with DaNang...she is the one who drove through the blinding rain to pick him up when he missed his plane and ended up in Orlando rather than Gainesville. I was sick at the time.
Let us tonight light a candle.. His life mattered and continues to matter but as his organs are failing, it is a day to day., minute to minute process and we need to show her how much we truly appreciate this military family...Just say a few words of encouragement or light a candle. She so needs our support at this time.
He never got his special mode of transportation. He was only blind and had one leg.
He never got through his special fossil find with our little girl being his eyes.
He never taught all the history he wanted to her or finish his cullinery tests.
He thought he had more time... He knew he wasn't going to die during Christmas.. He said he just couldn't die during Christmas. He is dying now, tonight possibly.
We love you Lynn.
Here are a few pics.......We have all been together with homeschooling, helping vets,
These personal problems with our vets and just trying to keep on in this crazy state of Florida with VA issues.
Lynn worked very hard and a pic of Sem Dem, she and me at the Florida Meetup,
Jeffrey teaching Sierra about fossils and cooking.
Lynn has touched so many veterans lives. Lynn has gone toe to toe with doctors and administrators and inspector generals and even turned over insurance fraud info that was featured in USA today and other media. I always took one end of the advocacy and she took the other..sometimes working in different ways, legislatively or toe to toe. We do this while caretaking , then her job got bigger.........her husband was basically given a death
sentence found only through VA paperwork. It truly is ironic that she got a huge whack from the VA Gainesville still not doing the right thing even unto her husband's dying.
He really wants Bernie Sanders to run for president.
This will be another vet done wrong in Florida.
Tonight this Kossack needs our thoughts and candles as she struggles with her vet's journey of Walking On.. This is a family of all family members served or serving. This is a shame.
Mon Jan 05, 2015 at 5:23 AM PT: Mr. Jeffrey walked on this AM around 7 AM....
RIP......
Thank you all for the candles and thoughts to Lynn