Aaron Boster

Thanks, mom and dad.

And I take a medicine to lower my cholesterol.

It's not cured.

If I stop the medicine, my cholesterol goes up and therefore my risk of heart attack and stroke goes up.

But we can treat high cholesterol.

And in the modern era, as we talk today, we can make MS boring.

And that's a big deal.

You know, if I use a different autoimmune disease as an example, diabetes used to be a death sentence.

So pre-insulin, if someone had type 1 diabetes, they would die because their kidneys would fail after 30 some years.

Nowadays, you don't know that your girlfriend has diabetes unless you eat cake with her and she happens to get out her little insulin pen and inject herself.

So what are you doing?

Oh, I'm giving myself my insulin.

And so that doesn't make it easy to have diabetes.

It's actually very hard, but we can make diabetes boring.

And with the earliest applications of highly effective medicines, with attention to some of the stuff we've been talking about, we can sometimes make MS really boring.

And I'm very proud of that.

And I think that I expect that over the next 10, 20 years, it's going to get more and more boring where someone can live their life and then MS doesn't get to pick what happens.

So the only way that I know how to do this is to walk with a family.

And I've learned that I have to grieve losses with someone.

And losing your ability to wear high-heeled shoes is a loss.