Health Problems and waivers

sj2009
Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:37:22 +0000

they’ll look at your record first, so ask that your doctor doesn’t put anything down that he/she isn’t completely sure about. I was DQd because of eczema, which I don’t actually have at all, but since a doctor once wrote that they thought I could have it and I wrote that I thought I had it thinking it wouldn’t be an issue, it was an issue. I went to the doctor and saw it turns out I never had it, they mixed it up with something else which is completely harmless, but they assumed history of it. I lost my ROTC scholarship because of this, they have a zero-waiver policy with eczema, but for some reason the Academy gave me the go-ahead and I’m here as a sophomore and love it. Risky business though. I had asthma as a kid, but since I was never reliably diagnosed (aka they gave me inhalers for it, but I was never tested for asthma and officially diagnosed, just “asthma?” with the ? was written in my record once, it was not an issue…). Keep trying if you get DQd. My mother and I worked really hard to get the waiver and eventually did. Lots of calling. And keep up your hope. I wasn’t accepted until late April early May because of this stuff. Never too late until basic begins! haha good luck!!