If anyone is keeping track this is my 200th blog.

So to not be a disappointment, maybe I should say something.

If you can’t tell, I’m passionate about science and medical research. It was evident when I worked on the ambulance and in the emergency room as evidenced in “My Ambulance Education.” It continued as an athletic trainer, graduate student and college professor. It is very important to me that my work have relatively transparent and soon benefits to society, so I do medical research to improve people’s health. I’ve blogged on many of these subjects.

I blogged on how EMS people may have to deal with patients with a neurologic deficit that caused them to try to refuse transport to a hospital or deny aid. My goal here was to put in writing that EMS personnel have difficult decisions to make in managing people with neurologic issues. This is especially acute with mild traumatic brain injury such as concussion because someone with a concussion could be aggressive but be cogent enough to try to refuse emergency care. The athletic trainer in me sees this often with athletes with concussion.  When I work with the athletic trainers we have worked to benefit the athletes with neurologic issues. As a researcher who has been working on bleeding in the brain for nearly 15 years it is nice to see that concussion and mild brain injury is high up in the public psyche. Sadly it appears that politicians are getting involved and making decisions that are ill advised.

As anyone who has read my blog regularly over the past 6 months knows I have been studying creatine, creatine kinase and creatine transport for about 25 years. It is what I did my Ph.D. on. I have submitted several blogs the creatine transporter deficiency because I am really excited that we have a chance to truly improve the patients with this disease as well as the creatine transporter deficiency syndromes. We have several drug candidates that show promise and will be working to get these to patients as soon as the FDA will allow.

As a person who has been trying to “help” people for an entire career. Being on the cusp of producing a drug that will drastically improve the lives of numerous patients is humbling and daunting. As I said in the beginning of this blog it is my 200th blog, if you have been following my blog for any period of those 200 posts you will have seen how I got here from there.

Thanks for reading this and come back soon.