Change

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/2280848,CST-NWS-vet17.article

U.S. steps up for wife of brain-injured vet

May 17, 2010

BY KIM JANSSEN Staff Reporter

For nearly five years without income, Aimee Zmysly relied on love and charity as she cared full time for her severely disabled husband, Afghanistan and Iraq Marine veteran Yuriy Zmysly.

Now -- thanks to a new act passed with bipartisan support and signed by President Obama -- the government's finally helping out with cash.

The Zmyslys, whose story was featured in the Chicago Sun-Times last month, traveled from their Oak Lawn home Sunday to join Sen. Dick Durbin in downtown Chicago and welcome passage of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act. It extends veterans' medical benefits and grants stipends of up to $35,000 a year to family members who give full-time, around-the-clock care to veterans.

"This will really help -- it's been so hard because I can't get a job," said Aimee Zmysly. She was refused government help after routine surgery at a military hospital went wrong in 2005, leaving Yuriy with severe brain injuries.

[bobbolink]

1. One good change..... a few million to go.

I'm glad that Ms. Zmysly's life will be a little easier. And how many thousands like her.

Unfortunately, the slaughter continues, and others of us peons are now being CUT. Does *that* matter?

[Greyhound]

2. K&R. Hope for Change.