{"id":12619,"date":"2016-03-03T07:16:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12619"},"modified":"2016-03-03T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T13:16:22","slug":"humor-va-celebrates-brain-injury-awareness-month-by-forgetting-to-celebrate-brain-injury-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/03\/humor-va-celebrates-brain-injury-awareness-month-by-forgetting-to-celebrate-brain-injury-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor: VA Celebrates Brain Injury Awareness Month by Forgetting to Celebrate Brain Injury Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12620\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/brain.png?w=620\" alt=\"brain\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 With March designated as Brain Injury Awareness Month, the Veterans Administration held a press conference today to announce several health care initiatives aiming to increase awareness of something to do with\u00a0veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be perfectly honest, I can\u2019t remember what this press conference was supposed to be about,\u201d said VA Secretary Robert A. McDonald upon arriving to the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has often been called the defining\u00a0injury of\u00a0the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over 300,000 service members have been diagnosed with TBI since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI vaguely recall sitting in some planning meetings and watching some powerpoint presentations,\u201d said McDonald. \u201cAs best as I can recall, it seems like there was some event coming up we were going to somehow commemorate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I should start writing this stuff down,\u201d added McDonald. \u201cUgh, now I have a headache.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Brain Injury Awareness Month initiatives within the VA include forgetting to hire enough providers, repeatedly losing paperwork, and gross executive dysfunctio<\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2016\/03\/va-brain-injury-awareness-month\/?utm_source=Duffel+Blog+Fans&amp;utm_campaign=1f78119c55-Duffel_Blog_Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6d392bc034-1f78119c55-23814417&amp;goal=0_6d392bc034-1f78119c55-23814417&amp;mc_cid=1f78119c55&amp;mc_eid=22936229f9\"> Duffel Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42 WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 With March designated as Brain Injury Awareness Month, the Veterans Administration held a press conference today to announce several health care initiatives aiming to increase awareness of something to do with\u00a0veterans. \u201cTo be perfectly honest, I can\u2019t remember what this press conference was supposed to be about,\u201d said VA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2382,2820,1911],"tags":[5097,5098,5099,2792,5100],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}