Hi, Paul ~
Support site forums tend to have a basically transient population. Once the patient is safely through surgery and/or radiation, they have no reason to keep visiting the site and many just want to move on. I don't expect to still be posting (much less, moderating) here in 5 years, but you never know. Right now, I feel my time is well spent here.
Thanks for the link. I watched the stem-cell news report video. It was certainly interesting and I'm happy for the young girl who is now able to see because of the stem-cell transplant. Although stem-cell research is fascinating and may well have implications for AN patients in the future, I hope the scientists can use adult stem cells which I believe have shown great success, or, as in the case of the Colorado teenager in the video, umbilical cord blood stem cells, preferably donated, to avoid the vexing moral issues inherent when you produce embryos for the specific purpose of killing them to 'harvest' stem cells. In the realm of medical science, it's a great time to be around but as always, with scientific progress come ethical and moral dilemmas. I trust the scientific community and society will be able to reach some level of conciliation on these thorny issues and I suspect that using adult stem calls or donated umbilical cord blood stem cells might be the result.
Jim
