75 years and counting

I wrote the following on Saturday and debated about posting. Finally decided to do it. Friday was the 75th year anniversary of Lou Gehrig's famous speach at Yankee stadium. In it he credited the fans in every stadium cheering for him and making him the luckiest man alive. Across the major league baseball world there were many ceremonies honoring him and creating awareness for ALS. It would be nice if the money baseball is contributing to research helped make a breakthrough on treatment. His positive attitude is a great example, but it sure would be nice to have a cure with his name rather than a disease. I find it sad that 75 years later we don't have any treatment just more technology to make life easier or even possible.. In fact it is no longer an orphan disease. Federal money for research continues to be from the Department of Defense because veterans have it twice as often as the general population. Even something that gets enough positive results to make it to a stage two clinical trial would be encouraging.