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Test Writing

Test Writing I'm writing this to avoid the tedium of lying around waiting for medical appointments and medication alarms. My sense of time changed when I had Covid a few months back. This turned into Myasthenia Gravis, double vision and neurology appointments. Now, the days go by very, very slowly. Is writing, any kind of writing, a good way to deal with this? Here I am trying. They say that this sense of “time hangs heavy” is due to boredom or lack of things to do. But why do we find “slow time” so annoying? While time, as measured by mechanical clocks, does not vary, our sense of it clearly does. Where does this biological sense of time come from? Early humans did not have any free time. There were no easy trips to the supermarket. There was always the need to hunt and find food. Leisure was scarce. Perhaps this drive to survive by doing is what makes free time challenging. We fill the gaps with song, dance, literature, art, science, sports and more recently TV, Inter...

First Post of Myasthenia Gravis Blog

.Sunday August 17, 2025 was the day before I tested positive  for Covid-19.  I tested positive on September 1,  12 days later.   On or about August 28,  I developed diplopia or double-vision.   On September 2,  I went to Mass Eye and Ear.  They did an MRI of my brain and found no tumors or anything else to explain the diplopia.  On Sunday,  September 7,  I felt very strange and went to the emergency room at MGH.   Antibody tests ordered by neurologists and clinical signs pointed to a diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis.  Since only my eyes were affected,  it's called "ocular" MG.   I started a medication called pyridostigmine which is an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor.   Since MG is an autoimmune disease the targets the acetylcholine receptor on the muscle side of the neuro-muscular junction,  the idea is to increase the amount of ACh in the synapse.  Thus perhaps compensating...