Any help will be appreciated

[MadisDaddy]

i have been in the Marine Corps for almost 3 yrs now and am having a hard time with a difficult decision.i was cut off on my motorcycle a little over a year ago and messed up my foot pretty bad. the ambulance took me to the navy hospital where they dicided i had 2 broken toes and to just stay off it for a few days. a few months later when the swelling finally went down the realised i shattered most of the right side of my left foot and would have to wait for surgery since they didnt notice it right away. i just recently had surgery and my surgeon says i have a 80-90% chance of making a recovery where i will be able to walk semi normal and run with minimal pain(noticeable limp though). i have been on limited duty for over a year and am about to possibly go on my 3rd period of lim-du if they dont put me on a peb.i am worried because i dont want to get out of the marines but at the same time i dont want to keep wasting all this time just to get kicked out further down the road. my m.o. gave me the option to go on a peb or the 3rd lim-du and i chose lim-du so i can try and stay in but he is thinking about putting me on a peb anyway. i dont know anything about what benefits i can get if i take the option to get on a medical board and what my family could get. i have a wife and 1 child and we are thinking about another child but dont want to be stuck with no medical coverage if i get kicked out before our 2nd child would be born.any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED.

[Tennessee Top]

Amazing! Didn't they do any x-rays on your foot at the Naval hospital? If they did, it would be difficult to miss a shattered left foot compared to just a couple broken toes. In the civilian world, that would be a medical malpractice lawsuit big time.

First thing...put off anymore children. Your future employment/financial status is too uncertain.

Not sure what a peb is. Also don't have any idea what benefits (if any) you would rate. Maybe you could talk to a local VA counselor to get an idea.

Good luck; hope you have stayed off the motorcycles as those things are killing machines. I work in a level 1 trauma center at a teaching/university hospital. Most of the motorcycle crashes we get in don't make it. There is a patient there right now with half his face missing, all of his genitals gone, and they have taken most of his butt off (being kept alive by machines at this point but doubt he would want to live).

[MadisDaddy]

They did do x-rays but my foot was so swollen after my accident that it was all fuzzy so they could only see the breaks in my toes. my specialist later said they should have done a ct scan but they didnt...it was the navy hospital...go figure