Walk4CMT coming up on September 18

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I will be walking as far as I comfortably can in Muscular Dystrophy Canada's Virtual Walk4CMT on Saturday, September 18 — which is somewhere north of 20km at which point the numbness setting it around 10km usually gets into a little more active pain, thanks of course to the effects of a relatively mild case of CMT2. To make it perhaps extra challenging, I'll be four days off the ol' snip and tuck, but I hope it really will make no vas deferens. 😆 If you already donated, thank you! I am still $45 under my goal of raising $1000, so there is room for more donors.

The Problem with Writing about CMT

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I've been increasingly irritated lately by US-based CMT-related non-profit organizations that seem to compete with each other for donations — supposedly they drive research for "treatments and cures." How well they actually do this relative to the padding of their own budgets is a good question I might take up down the line, but you would think they might at least put some effort into writing plain-English summaries of technical material (medical and scientific research) in ways that educate and inform regular people. But no.