Aaron Boster

With pleasure.

Aaron Boster, he, him, his.

So I'm a bit of a weirdo.

I decided to be an MS doc when I was 12.

My uncle Mark had MS since my, I don't remember a memory when my uncle didn't have MS.

So I knew what it meant to have to disimpact someone.

I knew what it meant when you had to help someone eat long before I knew like what neuroimmunology was.

And I remember like rather vividly, I was at my grandmother's house.

My grandmother and my mother were in the kitchen.

My uncle was where he always was watching TV in the other room in his wheelchair.

My mother and grandmother were crying.

They were holding hands.

And they weren't crying because my uncle had MS.

They were crying because they couldn't get a hold of their freaking doctor.

And this predates the interwebs.

This predates things like YouTube.

And I told my mom that I would learn to do it better.

Now, I didn't know what I was telling my mom.

I didn't know that I would be bald before I finished my training or that I'd have to learn a weird lexicon.

I just knew that nobody should make my family feel that scared and alone.