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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Th1onein
(8,514 posts)that benefits others doesn't mean that others haven't done that.
My son was born with Cystic Fibrosis. He died of it. I raised my children by myself, and when my son started getting really sick with his disease, I started studying the disease. When he died, I couldn't stop, and I have studied that disease for over seventeen years. In my spare time. I have written papers on the disease, one indexed on Medline/PubMed, and one in a textbook for research scientists, called Cystic Fibrosis: Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatments. I was the FIRST scientist to publish on the lactoperoxidase system in Cystic Fibrosis. In fact, there is a drug in clinical trials right now, called Meveol, which is based upon MY work on that system. I am currently working with a scientist from the National Institutes of Health, on the transport properties/substrates of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator protein. I have been approached now several times to work as a scientist in a lab that is working on a cure for the disease. I don't have time to do that right now, because I run a business, which I built. So, I study at night, as I have for almost two decades now. I don't make my living from doing biomedical research, Care Acutely. Because I do that in my SPARE TIME, but that doesn't make me any less of a scientist.
People can do all kinds of things, Care Acutely, if they put their mind to it. You'd be surprised what you can accomplish. What you shouldn't do, though, is make fun of someone who HAS done those things. And, in their SPARE TIME.