#if your appt takes 84 yrs its bc suddenly there were millions of treatable patients and now and exponentially increasing aging/diabetic pop
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we're in this phase III trial of this thing that is soooooooo cool and i want to talk about it sooooo bad but 1. no. 2. no one will understand me if i do. 3. no.
but its so wild to watch disease processes go from totally untreatable to like. one time novel solution. in half of a lifetime. like from "not only do we not know why this is happening or how to stop it but i can tell you that you're just going to go blind," to "well if you come in and get this done every x weeks actually you will preserve most of your vision" to "actually maybe we can just do this one procedure and the thing that robbed 25% of your family of the ability to read by age 75 will simply not be a problem for you"
#like for adult seeing people 80% of your sensory input comes from your vision so you can imagine what it's like to be 78 and lose vision#it ages people like you would not fucking believe#and it's absolutely wild to see it come back like cataract surgery is the most fun bc its like 10 min and life altering but alas#not everything is in the front of the eye#and its really amazing to see people go from rapidly aging and cognitively declining to like fully functional and active#just bc they got their vision back#a thing we could not do 20 years ago in this modality at all even a little bit like we still have og patients from THAT original study#the first one and done treatments for neurodegenerative diseases are soooooo close like they are happening i am seeing them#if your appt takes 84 yrs its bc suddenly there were millions of treatable patients and now and exponentially increasing aging/diabetic pop#if you can imagine: this is cliff-shaped curve that is rather difficult to keep up with from the provider-training perspective#so i would also like this to work so we dont have this 4 hour monthly appointment. for everyone involved which includes me who is so tired
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