); Lives could be saved : Woman with MS says adopted people should have access to medical history
“So many lives could be made better, saved, elongated, if doctors knew what they were testing for.” By Órla Ryan Saturday 6 Feb 2021, 10:30 AM Feb 6th 2021, 10:30 AM 24,939 Views 4 Comments
Sinéad Buckley
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A WOMAN BORN in a mother and baby home has said it’s vital for adopted people like her to have access to their birth and medical records.
Sinéad Buckley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2015 when she was 43.
Now 48, she believes she could have been diagnosed with the condition earlier if she had access to her medical records.
Tim Daisy; Matt Piet at the Hungry Brain pre-COVID Photos by Marek Lazarski and Morgan Ciesielski
The COVID-19 pandemic has put tens of millions of Americans out of work, but even considering that bleak landscape, musicians have been hit especially hard most of their jobs only barely exist now, and the infrastructure that might allow them to return someday is in danger of collapsing. Festivals have been canceled, larger concert halls closed, and smaller clubs either shuttered or restricted to fractions of their usual audiences. At least in the States, no one is touring. In Chicago, many of the venues that stage jazz and improvised music have either been streaming pay-what-you-will concerts or sitting dark since March. The disappearance of in-person performance opportunities hurts worse in this context, since the music thrives upon and in fact usual