It may be a week or two before I’ll be able to post a new blog. We’re in the process of moving. We have decided to relocate to Missouri to be closer to our grandkids.
It’s been hectic around here as we hurry to get everything packed up. The house has sold and will close in a few days, and movers will be here before we know it, so time is of the essence. That means I probably won’t have the time to release another blog before my computer finds its way into its box. I’ll write again as soon as I’m able to get my computer back out and set up at our new location.
That made me think. What did we do before computers? To show you how old I am, I remember the days without them. In fact, when I was in high school, kids took programming classes using cards. After properly preparing each card, it was critical to assure they were assembled in the proper order as they were fed into the computer. Each card contained an individual line of code so they had to go into the reader in that order. Some of their programs required several hundred cards and it was always a fear that they would drop their stack of cards and get them out of order, which would result in a programming error. I wasn’t much into computers at that time. Seemed like a lot of work to me.
Later in life I bought a PC Jr. Programs were fed into that computer with floppy disks. You could actually get onto the internet via AOL or another server, so it was wonderful. I still remember the sound of the odd tones the computer made as it connected to the internet over the phone line. Oh, and by the way, if someone was using the phone, you couldn’t get on the internet unless you had a separate phone line for your internet usage.
Nowadays, computers have gotten much more powerful and much smaller. I wear an Apple Watch and I’m told it has more computing power than the Apollo rocket that took Neil Armstrong to the moon. That’s simply amazing to me.
Just like the evolution of computers, I believe we’re still in the infancy of what we know about Myasthenia Gravis. We’re probably out of the programming cards phase and more towards the dial-up internet of a PC Jr. We know MG is out there, we know some of the markers to look for, we’ve developed a few medicines to treat it, but it’s slow going.
Like computers, someday we’ll know a lot more about Myasthenia Gravis. We’ll find more markers and develop more treatments. Who knows, they may even discover a cure. I believe this is where AI and quantum computing comes in. Those two things will speed up research, test theories, simulate trials, and identify more markers. I know a lot of people fear AI. I, for one, welcome it. I believe it’s going to allow us to do things that are currently humanly impossible.
So, that means hope. Maybe not so much for those of us with MG who are in our senior years, but certainly for younger people and for generations to come. I also believe someday they will find a cure. Call me an optimist, that’s what I am.
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Take care of yourself. Stay #MGStrong. I’ll write again as soon as I can.
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