Aaron Boster

This is a disease that sometimes we can wrangle to the ground, but we can't cure it, and it can progress.

And so whereas I grieve losses and I celebrate successes, they're typically time-locked.

And so sometimes the disease can get away from us and I watch someone who I've grown to love get worse and that hurts.

Sometimes I do a really good job and we get lucky and we make the disease boring.

Sometimes MS laughs at me and thinks I'm a joke.

And watching a young person develop chronic condition is a really hard thing.

It's a really, really hard thing to experience.

And so that's really hard.

That's a tough thing.

But that's the only way I know how to do it is, you know, I cry a lot in clinic with patients.

And I think that's fair because the stuff they're dealing with sucks and it makes you want to cry.

So in the modern era, with the earliest application of these medicines, we can expect a normal life expectancy.

And if we play our cards right, a darn near normal life quality.

So I want you to have more sex, climb more mountains.

I want you to work harder.

I want you to have more kids.

I want all the things.

And I don't want MS to make decisions for you.

So I think one of the things that we have to do is we have to think about what's the goal.

So I'll give you an example.