Disabled Veteran Looking For Government Education Help To Retrain For New Work
by Mickey Smethers
Seeking More Suitable Work
I joined the navy in September, 1975. I damaged my knee again on the ship during a shock test in Cuba. I spent years having about 30 different knee operations. In May of 2002 my knee cap broke. The doctors put me in a cast for nine weeks. After that they removed the cast on the knee and it broke again within an hour. The doctors keep telling me that there was nothing wrong with my knee and that it was all in my head. I moved to Alabama after my father passed away. The veteran's hospital there sent me to Houston, Texas, where I had another doctor tell me that my knee cap was dead. Somehow during the knee replacement, the blood going to my knee cap was cut off and it died. The VA in Houston did another knee operation April 2, 2008. All was going well until I started getting a lot of pain again in my knee. I moved to Indiana in February, 2009. The doctors there said that all was good. Since then, my knee has been put into different braces and it will not be long before they put my other knee in a brace too. I have been a mechanic since I was 14 years old. Now the doctor are telling me that I need to do something else. I have had a dream to open my own restaurant. I would like some help so I can go to school and learn the ins and out of the restaurant business. I have been told for years that I need to open a restaurant for year. I think that going to school is the best way to do that. Government education help to retrain for new work is what I need, but any kind of assistance for disabled veterans would be appreciated.
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