I just received my decision letter and I really consider it more of a slap in the face than if they just outright denied me. I injured my back several years ago during military sports and have been through countless treatments since then. I have been to physio I don't even know how many times, unknown number of medications, received accupunture, nerve blocks, several sessions of lidocane injections, and finally a few radio frequency ablation(RFA) surgeries. Nothing really helped until the RFA treatments. For those not really aware of what that is, there are a couple of good videos on youtube but basically I go in for surgery so they can burn off the nerves in one side of my back in four separate places. Then I heal for a week and go back in and get the other side done followed by another week of healing. It's not a pleasant experience. That takes me down to about 25 percent of the pain level. From there it is a steady climb back up to full pain over the next 6 months with surgery again. I have to go through this cycle for the rest of my life. During that time I am still on pain killers for the days where it is just to much. Right now I am on cyclobenzaprine and T3s with codeine and still find many tasks hard to do at work and at home. It has severely impacted my life and what I can and cannot do. There are many days it takes me 20 minutes to get my boots on in the morning and lots of weekend I can't take my son to the park because standing that long is to painful. The injury is severe enough that my medical file is in Ottawa waiting for my category to change. The recommendation from my doctor is written up so that I will still qualify for a couple of trades but there is no way I can stay in mine. Well with all of this according to good ol' Veteran's Affairs I am 4% injured with a 1% quality of life and according to them there is no pain. What do I do? After seeing the promotion board results and knowing that instead of getting promoted this year to Sgt I will have to start over as Cpl, then getting this letter it has been a bad week and I am ready to just give up.