January 24th, 2009
The Veteran’s Hospital
A friend asked me to drive him up to the VA medical center for an appointment he had for his skin condition. Turns out its a really bad case of Psoriasis brought on by treatments he was taking for hepatitis C, of which the VA had recently cured him of. Surprising to me, being as I used to think it was pretty much the end of the line if your blood were infected with it.
Seems now they have a cure for it, and he says the treatment wasn’t pleasant but that it wasn’t really all that bad either. So now he has to deal with bad skin outbreaks, like having dandruff from Hades I guess. But he swears by the VA. And I always let him know that his time in service to this country is, beyond all doubt, greatly appreciated.