It sounds like you have it made. SO long as you can afford to supplement what the VA will pay for. Assuming your cousin will write the prescriptions.
GO here About the T Replacement Category
Read everything, do everything, including looking into your thyroid issues. Take that Iodine unless you are a seafood eater who uses table salt that has iodine. And take your temperatures morning noon and night and see if that is effecting things
After you read it all, you will know what is the best treatment protocol. Then you can push the VA docs and have your cousin fill in the holes