Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Breaththrough Therapy

I am noticing these beautiful roses blooming in people's gardens at this time of year, simply stunning colours.


There is hope for heart failure patients (like my mom), Novartis has developed an exciting new drug.  It is being hailed as a rare breakthrough therapy and they are rushing it to market.  Of course, my mom also has some advancing dementia, it won't help that.

On another topic, son K and I recently took a bus tour to the Grand Canyon from Las Vegas.  I occurred to me that these bus tours are not necessarily safe.  I keep hearing in the news of these tour bus crashes that injure and kill tourists in different parts of the world.  In fact, our tour guide seemed to be falling asleep at the end of a long day.  We had 2 brief but scary moments.  I guess a lot depends on fate.   Overall it was a great tour that we took.
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10 comments:

  1. Valerie-Jael10 September, 2014 02:00

    The new medicament sounds good, hope it helps. There are always lots of bus accidents here, too, I think the drivers are often overtired. Valerie

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  2. ann @ studiohyde10 September, 2014 06:44

    Here's hoping they get the new medicines out there to help people.

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  3. Optimistic Existentialist10 September, 2014 07:08

    I am glad to read about this breakthrough therapy. I hope they approve it quickly for the public so that it can help a maximum number of people.

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  4. Anonymous10 September, 2014 08:22

    Such a pretty rose! Too bad about the dementia, which my mother has, also. As for the bus, accidents happen everywhere. Malaysia Airlines, for example.

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  5. Plowing Through Life (Martha)10 September, 2014 08:45

    That is wonderful news about the breakthrough therapy. I am so happy to be living in a age where we have all these medical advancements!

    Those bus tours sounds scary. Accidents do happen everywhere. Thank goodness your tour was safe.

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  6. Anonymous10 September, 2014 10:03

    thats exciting news about the new heart meds, but its scary news about the bus drivers, oh my!!!!

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  7. Adam10 September, 2014 16:39

    I imagine being the bus driver is one of the toughest jobs in the world.

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  8. Lisabella Russo10 September, 2014 17:19

    Beautiful roses and good news about the heart medications. Scary about the bus drivers...

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  9. Kristin10 September, 2014 17:58

    Grand Canyon to Vegas?! That must have been an interesting trip - glad your driver kept awake! AND much love to your mom - I hope the new medication will be of value to her! xoxo

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  10. Kay14 September, 2014 02:51

    I'm so sorry to hear about your mom, Christine. That's really difficult. I'm glad you got to see the Grand Canyon too. There's so much beauty out there.

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