I’m better now, much better, even if I can’t quite describe how.
Well, I know why I am better but first let me say, I haven’t been ill; there has been no recovery associated with my improved self. I’m hoping my improvement is for the betterment of society, too. Yet, when I began posting details of my improvement on social media I received well-wishing replies, sincere questions about my prior health issues and happy emoticons.
Way back in 2018 I met with genetic counselors whose role was informing users of their services – notice I didn’t say “patients” because we aren’t patients – about the map of their entire genome. It was my decision based on their genomic sequencing service to knockout 4 of my 20,000 genes and to alter another 4 with disease-latency. I know what you’re thinking: my parents carried cancerous but latent genes associated with breast and brain tumors. Yes and no, sort of. The counselors defined my account as fairly clean; it was rather, a 500 year historical relationship to African and Sub-Asian DNA that proved those cancers could activate inside chromosomes. Incredible fact of my DNA wouldn’t you say, here in 2028?
I’m better now with those latent genes altered and removed. I just wonder every day what the changes to me could do one day or even do to my kids and grandchildren. Still, I’m a better human now; feeling much better about myself. And, I got a call from an ad agency to be in a TV commercial for a pharmaceutical firm. I was sorry to turn down their offer. The setting was a family picnic with happy dogs and old and young people on a lovely wheat farm – all the things I’m allergic to.
Robert Waters, 2018blog
Well, I know why I am better but first let me say, I haven’t been ill; there has been no recovery associated with my improved self. I’m hoping my improvement is for the betterment of society, too. Yet, when I began posting details of my improvement on social media I received well-wishing replies, sincere questions about my prior health issues and happy emoticons.
Way back in 2018 I met with genetic counselors whose role was informing users of their services – notice I didn’t say “patients” because we aren’t patients – about the map of their entire genome. It was my decision based on their genomic sequencing service to knockout 4 of my 20,000 genes and to alter another 4 with disease-latency. I know what you’re thinking: my parents carried cancerous but latent genes associated with breast and brain tumors. Yes and no, sort of. The counselors defined my account as fairly clean; it was rather, a 500 year historical relationship to African and Sub-Asian DNA that proved those cancers could activate inside chromosomes. Incredible fact of my DNA wouldn’t you say, here in 2028?
I’m better now with those latent genes altered and removed. I just wonder every day what the changes to me could do one day or even do to my kids and grandchildren. Still, I’m a better human now; feeling much better about myself. And, I got a call from an ad agency to be in a TV commercial for a pharmaceutical firm. I was sorry to turn down their offer. The setting was a family picnic with happy dogs and old and young people on a lovely wheat farm – all the things I’m allergic to.
Robert Waters, 2018blog