which is what it must be? that s part of the frustration, that it is ongoing and tedious. and you don t know from one day to the next what you re going to get. and there are exacerbations. a couple months ago, richard was in a bad place. and i think we were both very low about it and depressed. and then he had a steroid treatment, and came back to where he had been prior to that. but you never know whether those are going to work. or we re going to see yet another problem developing. you have to learn to live with ambiguity. but this could be, meredith, a hugely significant moment in the treatment of ms. absolutely. if in a year s time we re back here doing another interview and you ve made significant progress suddenly, this could be the one breakthrough everyone has been waiting for. because 3 to 500,000 people in america have a form of ms. and when you have secondary progressive like richard, as he said, there is nothing out there. so this would be huge for people in t
that s part of the frustration, that it is ongoing and tedious. and you don t know from one day to the next what you re going to get. and there are exacerbations. a couple months ago, richard was in a bad place. and i think we were both very low about it and depressed. and then he had a steroid treatment, and came back to where he had been prior to that. but you never know whether those are going to work. or we re going to see yet another problem developing. you have to learn to live with ambiguity. but this could be, meredith, a hugely significant moment in the treatment of ms. absolutely. if in a year s time we re back here doing another
some of them will probably have preexisting health conditions. so, it s been a very stressful environment. so, if they had heart problems, lung problems, they could, you know, really have exacerbations of those conditions. they ll be watching them very carefully for that, i m sure. one of the things they ve talked about, it s the reason they have these monitors on, especially during this assent, they re looking for drops or spikes in blood pressure, the possibility, i guess, when you re making that assent like that, there could be some changes in pressure, sort of a decompression type sickness. would there be the possibility of maybe a nausea? do you think they probably gave them something or some sorts of medication to help them deal with that on the way up? i m not sure. you know, i know that i ve read articles saying that they weren t going to do that so that the miners are maximally alert, so if they get into trouble, they re actually able to help extricate themselves. most of