All Star Game

Watching the MLB All-Star baseball game. Eight of the stars are under 24 years old Baseball is back. Youthful promise is good. 

Baseball recognized the 600,000 Americans who die from some form of Cancer each year. Kudos to MLB for keeping the nation’s attention on such a horrible killer.

 Duchenne is a dream killer. Most of the victims are youngsters. They will never play in a youth baseball game or any outdoors game, for that matter. Their muscle deterioration prevents them from being physically competitive.

Some, however, are quite bright. My grandson Hayes, for example, easily converses about electronic circuitry, astronomy, physics, and chemistry at six years of age as competently and interestingly as you would expect a high school prodigy to present He is intellectually amazing with an adorable personality.  

The point. No doubt, 600,000 cancer deaths per year is terrible. But, let’s not forget the dream killer in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Promising kids’ lives are denied promise and America is denied the advances that would otherwise be realized if those talented kids lived a normal life.

There is only so much money available to promote mitigation and find cures to horrible diseases. All I ask is that rare diseases such as Duchenne that impacts kids not be overlooked.

Thank you, MLB, for keeping national attention on Cancer. However, we Americans and labs in foreign countries in general must keep attention on curing such a dream killer as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Kindly yours,

Papa in Tennessee