An Unforseen Cost of War -vets returning with TBI
Jarod Behee was shot in the head in Iraq. He survived, but is still suffering from the aftereffects of a traumatic brain injury. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that Behee is one of several thousand veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with some kind of mental disorder or brain injury, but veterans advocacy groups place that number even higher. Behee's wife, Marissa, was so frustrated with the care that her husband had received at the VA in Palo Alto, Calif., that she pulled her husband out and put him in a private facility. "For the first month, I thought this isn't the way he should be treated," she told "Good Morning America." The VA in Palo Alto said that Behee's injury was complex, and that the Behees needed to be more patient. It broke my heart to see the other guys there not getting the care, but they didn't have their family there to fight for them," Marissa Behee said.
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