Having enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease at home thankfully decreases the necessity for frequent hospital visits, thereby improving vastly my quality of life. Treatment of Gaucher today barely intrudes on my life at all, although I do feel somewhat like a pin cushion, many needles stuck in me over the years, but I take this in my stride. So here I sit once again, hooked up to an i.v. line, which I receive twice a month keeping Gaucher disease under control. Gaucher being a rare chronic genetic disease, there was no treatment available until 1990, when the first ever treatment was finally tested and proven. Today, fortunately science and medicine have come a long way, and there are several companies now making the enzyme that Gaucher patients are missing. To date there is still no cure, but I live in hope, and as I said to a fellow PD sufferer just yesterday, I am the eternal optimist!
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