Originally published at: nichq.wordpress.com
As I walked in to the meeting room, I was pleased to see I was slated to sit next to the meeting co-chair, who I had met previously and wanted to get to know even better. As I walked out to stow my luggage, one of the meeting coordinators approached me and let me know that they were moving me because another individual required access to a plug (which happened to be right behind the seat I was initially assigned to). Oh well I thought … I will simply connect with the co-chair later in the day.
Interesting how fate works.
Shortly thereafter I realized I would be sitting next to a brilliant patient advocate, who also happens to have a chronic degenerative neurological disease. (I will refer to him as Neal.) And throughout the day, Neal showed all of the following symptoms of the disease:
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