In search of a treatment

Submitted to Breakthrough

by Heather Kirkwood

Uploaded 19 Feb 2007

© Heather Kirkwood

Breakthroughs don’t always happen all at once. Sometimes it takes hundreds of little steps. This is my brother Ryan visiting me in the hospital at the National Institutes of Health. I am participating in a drug trial hoping to make a breakthrough in the treatment of the pulmonary fibrosis associated with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome. Ryan spends many an evening with me “hanging out.” We think of it not as a hospital, but as a “hotel with hospital beds.” We're doing our part for the cure.

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