I got sick in 1979 in Toronto, Ontario. There was no word of anyone at all getting what I got but me.
I was shocked, years later, to discover that a whole bunch of people in Nevada came down with exactly what I had. Exactly.
There has never, to my knowledge, been an outbreak in Toronto.
Maybe I don't harbour XMRV. I will have to be patient. I still believe that those felled in epidemics -who had exactly the same onset, findings and illness course as I do- have the same thing I have. Studying XMRV, whether I have it or not, can only help me.
I was in an area where there were outbreaks of ME during those outbreaks. I was born in a hospital in London, one week to the day following the beginning of an outbreak of ME among the nursing students and lived in the city during one or two subsequent outbreaks.
But, I had the classic viral onset, followed by reactivated EBV... more than 20 years later in Toronto.
What we don't know outpaces what we do know. We will have to be patient.
I'm not engaging in speculation about these things, personally. I would just end up riding the emotional upsidaisyum. I'm not going there. Time will tell.
peace out,
Koan
I was shocked, years later, to discover that a whole bunch of people in Nevada came down with exactly what I had. Exactly.
There has never, to my knowledge, been an outbreak in Toronto.
Maybe I don't harbour XMRV. I will have to be patient. I still believe that those felled in epidemics -who had exactly the same onset, findings and illness course as I do- have the same thing I have. Studying XMRV, whether I have it or not, can only help me.
I was in an area where there were outbreaks of ME during those outbreaks. I was born in a hospital in London, one week to the day following the beginning of an outbreak of ME among the nursing students and lived in the city during one or two subsequent outbreaks.
But, I had the classic viral onset, followed by reactivated EBV... more than 20 years later in Toronto.
What we don't know outpaces what we do know. We will have to be patient.
I'm not engaging in speculation about these things, personally. I would just end up riding the emotional upsidaisyum. I'm not going there. Time will tell.
peace out,
Koan