Here's hoping

There is a new member of PLM with whom I have been corresponding. She is depressed and says she feels like she is just killing time until she dies. I reminded her we were all on the path to that ultimate end, ALS diagnosis or not, we just have the advantage of a warning bell.

I then went to the PLM forum. There are posts today about how close are we to a cure and about a woman who was miraculously cured (MUCH debate on this, by the way, and much skepticism). I read the threads on both these topics and felt the desperate hope in everyone's comments--and sensed my own desperate hope that a cure will be found, for me, for my new correspondent, for all of us.