Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Robyn Young's Story

Another case of Canada's military abandoning a veteran in medical distress? Robyn Young is a 24 year Navy veteran who for four years battled a brain tumour while a full-time member of the military. She reported symptoms to the base Medical Officer who refused to conduct a CAT scan during those four years. It was after Robyn passed out and was rushed to hospital that an emergency CAT scan discovered the brain cancer. By that time Robyn had reduced her reservist status (planning on attending nursing school), but the military argued she was no longer covered by its medical plan, even though a misdiagnosis of her brain problems had carried on for four years on a military base and by a military Medical Officer. Robyn Young's brain cancer has been successfully beaten back medically, but she suffers double-vision and constant nausea. For treatment she has to leave Windsor, Ontario for Victoria, B.C. and the military is providing only a one-way ticket and no accommodation while Robyn and her mother Pearl Osmond, also a 23 year military veteran who saw duty in Afghanistan are in B.C. for the treatment. The military base hospital in London, Ontario denied treatment to Robyn Young.
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Another case of Canada's military abandoning a veteran in medical distress? Robyn Young is a 24 year Navy veteran who for four years battled a brain tumour while a full-time member of the military. She reported symptoms to the base Medical Officer who refused to conduct a CAT scan during those four years. It was after Robyn passed out and was rushed to hospital that an emergency CAT scan discovered the brain cancer. By that time Robyn had reduced her reservist status (planning on attending nursing school), but the military argued she was no longer covered by its medical plan, even though a misdiagnosis of her brain problems had carried on for four years on a military base and by a military Medical Officer. Robyn Young's brain cancer has been successfully beaten back medically, but she suffers double-vision and constant nausea. For treatment she has to leave Windsor, Ontario for Victoria, B.C. and the military is providing only a one-way ticket and no accommodation while Robyn and her mother Pearl Osmond, also a 23 year military veteran who saw duty in Afghanistan are in B.C. for the treatment. The military base hospital in London, Ontario denied treatment to Robyn Young.

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