s**t.. I haven't kept y'all up to date.
Turns out I need my medical paperwork for every time I was hospitalized for kidney stones. They also want me to go a year without a kidney stone before sending my paperwork in, and my last hospital visit for them was three months ago, so that alone puts a 9 month wait on things. If I get another stone within that 9 month period, boom, starts the clock over. The recruiter is pretty confident that I would not be accepted having this long of a history with kidney stones, AND currently having them. My only chance is to convince them that they're no longer an issue.
Here's another problem, bi lateral kidney stones are disqualifying (require a waiver), and.. recurring kidney stones are disqualifying as well. My medical paperwork will show both of those things.
The Marines recruiter gave me false hope on the kidney stone issue because he told me to not even mention it. My Army recruiter asked me if there was anything at all that may come up during the process and I mentioned my kidney stones and how the Marines told me to not say anything.
He said if they can't prove it, don't tell them about it, but with kidney stones it would be hard to lie. Say I get to basic training and have a kidney stone. Get hospitalized, get a CT scan to verify that it's a stone, and then they see that I have numerous stones currently in both kidneys. They didn't form overnight and that shows a history. I could be dishonorably discharged. s**t would ruin my life.
Also, the medical paperwork is stored at an off site facility so I have to order all the documents. 90 cents a page, and no way of knowing how many pages. I'm going to assume that it's a fair amount considering there would be paperwork for about ten trips to the hospital and an ear reconstruction surgery. So there's that.
Basically, I've hit a wall.
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