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Precision Medicine

Rob and I stayed on west coast time during our visit to Boston, lazily ordering room service on our first couple of days because going outside and fending for ourselves would have required too much energy. This is why I was still in pajamas, and showing a rather inappropriate amount of leg when the server brought breakfast up at 1pm on Saturday. This isn’t like a sexy thing. I was in my wheelchair probably scrolling through my Facebook feed while Rob watched football. And you know what? It was perfect. The server may have found it even more perfect if I’d been wearing pants, but you can’t please everyone.

As I’ve already reported, we were in Boston for the ALS TDI party, but we were also there so that I could participate in TDI’s Precision Medicine program. On Monday morning, we got up “early” aka 9:30am, and headed down the street to Massachusetts General Hospital. The first part of the program involved having blood drawn, followed by a small skin biopsy, during which they removed a part of my arm that was about the size of a pencil eraser. The whole thing took 10 minutes.

Then we were off to ALS TDI’s offices in Cambridge. Read More>