Do you remember those moments in your life when something so momentous happens that time seems temporarily suspended, and you become acutely aware of your surroundings? For example, people frequently ask, Do you remember where you were when you heard about JFKs assassination? Or when you first heard about Princess Diana? Or 9-11? What about when you became sick with CFS? Youll never forget, right?
I can even remember exactly where I was when I first heard about CFS. It was 1985-86, and I was rushing out of the bedroom on my way to work. Before I turned off the radio, I heard the news reporter doing a piece on Yuppie Flu. Young, upwardly mobile professional. The newscaster was saying these people were too tired to get out of bed and go to work. I thought, No way! I couldnt wrap my mind around someone who worked very hard for a degree and a career choosing to lie around in bed. Then I get CFS 15 years later. Go figure.
August 23, 2010. The Alter paper. From Yuppie Flu to retrovirus. Out of the mouth of a Federal official. Whats next? We find life on another planet?
Quickly, the forum threads filled with links to the New York Times, CNN, PNAS early edition, HPC Market Watch, and more. The CDC XMRV page is gone. No. There it is again, carefully and cautiously worded to coincide with the release of the NIH paper.
I get my Medicare Advantage customer rep on the telephone. Do you cover the Human Gamma Retrovirus Test Kit? I ask nonchalantly, while thinking Im in some kind of science fiction movie. Silence. I tell her it comes as a serology or culture test. Finally, she says that she needs the CPT codes in order to tell me if its covered. I tell her Ill call and find out. We say this to each other three times. She wont let me off the phone.
86% of CFS sufferers have a retrovirus. Say that to yourself 5 times fast. We have it for life. There is no cure. Presumably, its transmitted like AIDS. Tell your partner that 5 times real fast. We have it for life. Thunderstruck.
*ACDC
I can even remember exactly where I was when I first heard about CFS. It was 1985-86, and I was rushing out of the bedroom on my way to work. Before I turned off the radio, I heard the news reporter doing a piece on Yuppie Flu. Young, upwardly mobile professional. The newscaster was saying these people were too tired to get out of bed and go to work. I thought, No way! I couldnt wrap my mind around someone who worked very hard for a degree and a career choosing to lie around in bed. Then I get CFS 15 years later. Go figure.
August 23, 2010. The Alter paper. From Yuppie Flu to retrovirus. Out of the mouth of a Federal official. Whats next? We find life on another planet?
Quickly, the forum threads filled with links to the New York Times, CNN, PNAS early edition, HPC Market Watch, and more. The CDC XMRV page is gone. No. There it is again, carefully and cautiously worded to coincide with the release of the NIH paper.
I get my Medicare Advantage customer rep on the telephone. Do you cover the Human Gamma Retrovirus Test Kit? I ask nonchalantly, while thinking Im in some kind of science fiction movie. Silence. I tell her it comes as a serology or culture test. Finally, she says that she needs the CPT codes in order to tell me if its covered. I tell her Ill call and find out. We say this to each other three times. She wont let me off the phone.
86% of CFS sufferers have a retrovirus. Say that to yourself 5 times fast. We have it for life. There is no cure. Presumably, its transmitted like AIDS. Tell your partner that 5 times real fast. We have it for life. Thunderstruck.
*ACDC
