There was a medical article the other day that popped up where a daughter received the first kidney transplant without life-long anti-rejection drugs. Instead they reprogrammed her immune system to see her mother's tissue as self instead of foreign body. She was on anti-rejection meds for months instead of life. I presume so they could test whether their plan worked or not.

If they can do that for life or death situations, I have hope that we can refine the process for other auto-immune diseases that are everything from lifestyle threatening up to life-threatening. My issues are middle of the list, but if arthritis had a solution other than immunosuppression while I still have cartilage, that would make me so happy.

And I'd really like to be able to eat croissants and baklava again, if that can be arranged.