A small personal note on 2001

I can't end the account of the events of 2001 without noting a small but significant personal change for me. I stood down as the Pompe representative on the AGSD-UK Executive. Partly because I was just worn out with it really. Partly because I had always seen my involvement as finite - I would do it until a treatment was available. That day was was now not so far off.  And partly again because I was in the happy position of having a good successor in Allan Muir.

I've already sung Allan's praises once, so I won't embarrass him by doing it again. Except to note that he is one of those people who seems to radiate calm, when everyone else is in a flap. A quality I can only admire.

From now on, the rest of this blog (at least the bits written by me) will be somewhat detached from the UK scene. I retained my involvement with the IPA for another couple of years though (before cunningly diverting that to Allan too).

I therefore only have first-hand experience of two more years - 2002 and 2003.