Let me now narrate a few incidents that have occurred to me in the last two days...
1) I completely FORGOT that I had taken my car to work and at the end of the day started walking towards the station to catch the train back home! (I realised after I was about half way to the station...)
2) I FORGOT completely to add a control tube containing my "vector only" for my ligations!
3) I FORGOT to put on my glasses in the morning!
4) I FORGOT that it was Jeans for Genes day! (Quite ashamed of that actually...)
5) I walked all the way to the station this morning, because I didn't want to wake my brother, then I had to ring him, wake him up and ask him to bring me my wallet because I FORGOT to take it with me before I left home!
Ok - is it crazy for me to worry about myself after all that??? That is seriously not normal - even for me!!! It has me quite paranoid actually and I was convinced this morning that maybe I am going slightly cuckoo!
Anyways, with that aside, I met my first ever Rett child today. We had some funding people come and they came for a tour of our lab. The girl was only 9 and she had a very mild mutation and so had a fairly mild phenotype. I wouldn't have been able to pick her out had it not been for her mum telling us...
Its amazing how distanced the lab environment is from the clinical setting - so much so that I sometimes FORGET (:P) that what I am doing is ultimately going to significantly change someone else's life. I guess I can only hope that this change will be for the better!
A few little things today helped put life in perspective for me - even if it was only for a short while!
PS: Rett Syndrome is the disease I work on for those who were wondering what I meant by "Rett child"...
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