These liars would get zero stars if possible because they played with my life, literally, promising a decision on entry into the program ¨in two weeks¨. I heard nothing for three weeks, so I called and talked to Cherie, the person supposedly organizing and submitting my case for review.
When Cherie answered the phone, she sounded surprised and dumbfounded by my request for an update, then said ¨Oh, yeah, here it is on my desk, I'll submit it this afternoon. It seemed to me that possibly, very possibly, she hadn't done a damn thing in three weeks even though she knew very well that I wanted to die, was still very suicidal after a suicide attempt one month earlier.
I am a disabled combat veteran and retired officer with PTSD and many other disabilities. My life has been spiraling down for several years and for numerous reasons, so my suicide attempt on December 9th, 2024 was a culmination of years of stress ending in a precipitous event caused by evil and malignant people, and I use that term loosely, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Veterans Affairs (VA). I will leave it at that.
UCLA Operation Mend offered me hope, great hope, that possibly I might be healed, feel semi-normal after four long years of suffering, but that glimmer of hope was slowly washed away, culminating after eight long weeks with ¨sorry, we won't help you, call 911¨. I am serious as a heart attack, so feel free to check out my website and YouTube channel if interested in more background.
Long story short, after two months of giving me hope, they tossed me aside like a bum in the gutter without even as much as a ¨sorry¨. That is Operation Mend in a nutshell.
ZERO INTEGRITY EQUALS ZERO BOMBS FOR UCLA'S OPERATION MEND, A PROGRAM THAT TRIES TO KILL VETERANS, NOT SAVE US ... TREAD LIGHTLY AND TRUST NOBODY AT UCLA'S OPERATION MEND
Here's my final message to them:
Read Chris S.'s review of UCLA Operation Mend on YelpI can neither wait for nor work with an organization that has such little respect for disabled veterans.We were told eight weeks ago that UCLA's decision process would take two weeks. I told them very clearly at that time that I have been in a crisis since December 7th with a suicide attempt on December 9th, yet there is zero sense of urgency at UCLA and two months later I am being told that nothing will happen for a few more months. Really?Who is the grantor for Operation Mend? Board of Directors? Do they know how disabled combat veterans are being treated at UCLA?I am sick and tired of being disrespected and ignored by every so-called veteran's organization in our country because it seems as though nobody cares if I live or die. I continue to be disrespected time after time after time and I am done.Is this the way a program for the most broken humans in the world should be run? It seems as though UCLA either doesn't have a clue how to treat us or simply doesn't care about America's disabled veterans.My wife could have gone to Italy to take care of her sick mother and I could have flown to the USA, like I will have to do now, and get the help I so desperately need TWO MONTHS AGO at a US emergency room if Cherie would have been honest, explaining the process much more clearly from the start. We have been sitting on our thumbs, waiting for a decision that still has not come after two months and I have been suicidal the entire time, but nobody at UCLA sems to care as I continue to get sicker and sicker. Our emails requesting updates have gone unanswered.I have lost what little trust or confidence I had in UCLA to save my life. I don't actually expect anything to be done about my concerns because, like all bureaucracies, UCLA could obviously care less about people, individual patients, and is more concerned about policies, processes, and protecting your own employees than helping patients.You obviously have no intention of helping me any time soon, so withdraw me from consideration for Operation Mend. I give up, you win, happy? I'll be dead soon and you will pay.
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Title: UCLA's Operation Mend Put Last Nail In Disabled Combat Veteran's Coffin
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