I am so excited about this. But scared also, because feeling optimistic about there being treatment or a cure is a very hard thing to have if it turns out to be false. A little voice says 'what if this person is wrong, and the results are not what they think they are'. But mostly though, I'm beginning to hope that one day I'll be fixed.
I was so excited I phoned my dad at about midnight (curfew for phoning in the family is about 9pm these days). He didn't mind though, we need some hope as a family. And my carer got very little done today because I told them all about it too. I don't think I'm going to be able to shut up about it for days...
One thing that surprised me was that Ron I think said that about the graph with normal and me/cfs people with the microchip test, that normal people blue line stayed the same, but the red line all went up. Given there seems to be a view that there's different sorts of me/cfs - seems strange to me that all the me/cfs red line people reacted in the same way? Or maybe it's because the me/cfs people being tested are all severely affected progressive sorts? Or maybe there aren't different sorts at all.
For me though, the bottom line is that even if Ron and his team's research only helps Whitney get his life back, but is a dead end for everyone else, it's worth it. Even if I stay the same forever, knowing that one person is fixed would be enormous comfort. I'm hoping it will turn out wider than that, maybe as far as more than the people whose blood is being tested or even certain cohorts of us globally. But even one person, that's way more than we've had before.