The Sense of an Ending
Tick is a humble genesis, tock a feeble apocalypse. 1 For several months last year the only mast cell stabiliser that is effective for mastocytosis was out of production and I had a reminder of how bad my condition could be. Instantly returning me to the time when I had been too unwell to run. But back then my running had been taken away gradually and not suddenly, all at once. Back on the ketotifen the condition settled and I felt good again. I went on to have my best ever cross country season, gaining my first Scotland East vest and finishing in the top 20 at the Scottish National Cross Country Championships. But in the back of my mind a faceless clock had started ticking, counting down the time I had left to run. I’ve read every journal article on mastocytosis I can get my hands on - I work in a university so that’s quite a lot - but ‘little is known about specific prognostic factors predicting the outcome in individual patients’. 1 There is no way to predict how long