Central TX Woman Fighting VA

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Many have criticized the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as an overwhelmed, unorganized system offering care. The VA is coming under fire again, this time from a Central Texas woman. This Central Texas woman says her survivor benefits have been denied, even though her husband's shipmates insist his exposure to Agent Orange is real. "He wasn't just a good sailor; he was an excellent husband," said Diane Zweig. Diane Zwieg met her blue-eyed Navy man in 1980. "He was the light of my life, I tell you that," Zweig said. Those baby blues enchanted her to the end, when cancer attacked Ted Zweig. "It had exploded through his whole body," she said. Diane says Ted got regular checkups at the VA, but no one noticed anything until he complained about his vision. She says an emergency room doctor spotted the cancer during an MRI. Ted started treatment, while he waited for a VA appointment. She says only when she stepped up her complaints about a dying husband did they make room for him. "They said how about October 27, and that was about a week and a half away," said Zweig. "I said, 'OK, we'll take it,' and dwell he died on the 26." Ted Zweig died October 26, 2013, of lung cancer that had metastasized, one day before his VA appointment. When Dianne applied for survivor benefits, she was denied.

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Many have criticized the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as an overwhelmed, unorganized system offering care. The VA is coming under fire again, this time from a Central Texas woman. This Central Texas woman says her survivor benefits have been denied, even though her husband's shipmates insist his exposure to Agent Orange is real. "He wasn't just a good sailor; he was an excellent husband," said Diane Zweig. Diane Zwieg met her blue-eyed Navy man in 1980. "He was the light of my life, I tell you that," Zweig said. Those baby blues enchanted her to the end, when cancer attacked Ted Zweig. "It had exploded through his whole body," she said. Diane says Ted got regular checkups at the VA, but no one noticed anything until he complained about his vision. She says an emergency room doctor spotted the cancer during an MRI. Ted started treatment, while he waited for a VA appointment. She says only when she stepped up her complaints about a dying husband did they make room for him. "They said how about October 27, and that was about a week and a half away," said Zweig. "I said, 'OK, we'll take it,' and dwell he died on the 26." Ted Zweig died October 26, 2013, of lung cancer that had metastasized, one day before his VA appointment. When Dianne applied for survivor benefits, she was denied.

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Many have criticized the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as an overwhelmed, unorganized system offering care. The VA is coming under fire again, this time from a Central Texas woman.

This Central Texas woman says her survivor benefits have been denied, even though her husband's shipmates insist his exposure to Agent Orange is real. "He wasn't just a good sailor; he was an excellent husband," said Diane Zweig. 
Diane Zwieg met her blue-eyed Navy man in 1980. "He was the light of my life, I tell you that," Zweig said. Those baby blues enchanted her to the end, when cancer attacked Ted Zweig. "It had exploded through his whole body," she said. Diane says Ted got regular checkups at the VA, but no one noticed anything until he complained about his vision. She says an emergency room doctor spotted the cancer during an MRI. 
Ted started treatment, while he waited for a VA appointment. She says only when she stepped up her complaints about a dying husband did they make room for him. "They said how about October 27, and that was about a week and a half away," said Zweig. "I said, 'OK, we'll take it,' and dwell he died on the 26." Ted Zweig died October 26, 2013, of lung cancer that had metastasized, one day before his VA appointment. When Dianne applied for survivor benefits, she was denied.

Many have criticized the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as an overwhelmed, unorganized system offering care. The VA is coming under fire again, this time from a Central Texas woman. This Central Texas woman says her survivor benefits have been denied, even though her husband's shipmates insist his exposure to Agent Orange is real. "He wasn't just a good sailor; he was an excellent husband," said Diane Zweig. Diane Zwieg met her blue-eyed Navy man in 1980. "He was the light of my life, I tell you that," Zweig said. Those baby blues enchanted her to the end, when cancer attacked Ted Zweig. "It had exploded through his whole body," she said. Diane says Ted got regular checkups at the VA, but no one noticed anything until he complained about his vision. She says an emergency room doctor spotted the cancer during an MRI. Ted started treatment, while he waited for a VA appointment. She says only when she stepped up her complaints about a dying husband did they make room for him. "They said how about October 27, and that was about a week and a half away," said Zweig. "I said, 'OK, we'll take it,' and dwell he died on the 26." Ted Zweig died October 26, 2013, of lung cancer that had metastasized, one day before his VA appointment. When Dianne applied for survivor benefits, she was denied.

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