KETOGENICGURL wrote: »

The VA now allows us to go to private specialists as rural vets often can't be seen with-in 30 days, or who live 40+ mile from the VA hospitals, and saves me a 14 hr RT shuttle bus.

I had such a horrible experiences with the VA nephrology docs, knocking every success I had on LC (actually making total fun of Dr Adkin's DEATH, which made me cry!) and sending me to a Renal RD who pushed 150 carbs a day on me, telling me, who was using a walker at that time, to "just increase your exercise to 5 MILES a day! (from 1) and so clueless that I refused to go there again..

I used this referral program to see a local private Neph. and she was delighted I am sticking to a Ketogenic diet-modified, plan.. I even have her WRITTEN approval on a fax I sent with questions, she just wrote on it and sent back. And my kidney function jumped from a scary Stage 4 back to a Stage 3 in short order.

But it is a fight to deal with most.