Hi ____,

I’m sure you may already have had access to this. I came across it by accident today when I was looking for something else. Two years ago now the VA cerified me as a candidate for interferon treatment for my HCV. Since then my spinal injury started acting up and became much worse. Now I walk with a cane because I am too weak to walk very far without resting and I am prone to frequent bouts of vertigo. Anyway, next week the HCV nurse wants to start work-up to redo the stress tests for interferon treatment. I know there is no way that I will be able to pass the tread mill, they probably won’t schedule one. I think it is good that it worked out this way because as we know the interferon has turned out to be pure rat poison. INF was never meant to be a a treatment for HCV. It was an old cancer treatment that was pulled off the shelf to treat HIV back in the late 80s but then put back on the shelf because of the side effects. We know that Congress swept the issue of Veterans with HCV under the carpet in 2000 because they didn’t want to fund the VA to treat us. Then this   certification came along by the FDA back in 2001:

Regards

Squidley