The MS Wild Card: A Middle-Aged Look at Life Without a Cure

There was a time in my life when birthdays were a good time to look back and mark accomplishments. There was a time when they were a good time to look forward to what might lie ahead. In general, I now look at birthdays as simply a good time to have a good time. When a family member only a brace of years behind mentioned that I was now middle-aged, however, I awoke to today’s blog topic. What if they don’t find a cure before my life comes to an end? When pressed in an interview of me that our readers conducted in 2009, I admitted that I didn’t think there would be a cure for MS in the next 25 years. (To be fair, I answered the question in this way: “When I’m alone with myself and my thoughts, my answer is an absolute.  When, however, I’m in the company of the brilliant minds doing research, I come away with a less certain, and assuredly more positive, thought on the question. Without sounding too wishy-washy, I’d have to hedge with the answer, “I don’t think so.”) Five years in, and I can’t honestly say that my answer would change much. Even if the “eureka moment” were to happen today in some lonely scientist’s lab, it would be nearly a decade before ‘The Cure’ could be thoroughly tested and on the market (okay, we could see it fast-tracked in maybe 7 years). That’s another good chunk of time for my disease to progress. This isn’t a “poor us, we’re never going to be cured” blog; quite to the contrary. The title of this blog has alway...
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