Is anyone else puzzled about this?

In My Humble Opinion
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There was a post from someone who calls herself Special K.

She gave some details of the suffering she is having because of an unnamed Central Nervous System disease.

She seems to have left the SDers message board.

I find this frustrating because I am on a mailing list which posts updates on all sorts of Neurological Disorders, and lists possible new treatments.

She sent me an e-mail, and I erased it, drat it all, two days before I got the update.

This may seem silly, but I would like to have helped her.

I did look up one of the medications she listed, Neurotrophin, and got some medical things I couldn’t possibly understand. They mention Nerve Growth Factor, Myelination and this beauty: NT-3, like NGF, is required for survival of sympathetic neurons, but not their precursors.

Is anyone else curious about this?

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Special K was here a week ago. If you put the name in the title of a thread, you might get an answer soon.

Also, there was an email listed: Pyrets@aol.com
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=7488

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She sent me an email from that aol account last week.

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Thank you so much. Two days after I erased the e-mail she sent to me, I got two notices from medical places about new treatments.

And of course was SO frustrated that I couldn’t at least ask if she would be interested in them.

Again, thanks.