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My best thoughts and wishes to the OP for his future. Hope he manages to successfully sell his startup and focus on his health. My first business partner (who
by cyberferret 8y ago
My best thoughts and wishes to the OP for his future. Hope he manages to successfully sell his startup and focus on his health.
My first business partner (who was my best friend at the time) experienced something similar second hand. His wife (whom I was also close to) was told she had a cyst in her spine which affected her walking, and it needed to be operated on, with a 50/50 chance that she would become a paraplegic or by totally cured.
Unfortunately, it was the wrong 50% and she ended up in a wheelchair, and terribly sadly, their marriage ended after a couple of years because of all the strains and challenges of her new situation.
My former business partner in my second business was an extremely fit and athletic woman, who one day found that she struggled to walk up some stairs. It turned out she had an extremely rare condition called Pompe disease, which affects the muscles in your extremities at first, then slowly moves towards your core muscles before finally leading to heart failure. She is playing the waiting game now while fighting for the experimental stem cell treatment that helps her to be officially approved by our government.
- Abishek_Muthian 8y ago(OP) It was heart breaking to hear about your friends & their family. I'm sure it is very hard for friends like you to see your loved ones suffer & feel helpless. I would wish greater focus towards medical science, promote factual information & medical ethics to hope for a future where chronic illness is not common.