Google Co-founder Sergey Blogs
Posted by iceman9 on September 21, 2008
[singlepic=58,100,100,,left]Sergey Brin the co-founder of google started his own blog: http://too.blogspot.com. It reflects his personal life outside from work. His second post if I’m not mistaken:
For more than 20 years, my mother has worked with computers at NASA. So, when she developed a pain in her hands the diagnosis seemed easy — Repetitive Stress Injury. Except that it wasn’t so easy. As her mysterious symptoms progressed it varied — RSI, fibromyalgia (unexplained pain), Lyme Disease, and so forth. It was only after visits to many specialists over a number of years that the diagnosis settled — Parkinson’s Disease. Since there is no clear test for Parkinson’s — it is defined by its symptoms — we only grew certain as those symptoms developed and as her medications began to alleviate them.
My mother had always been haunted by Parkinson’s because her aunt had suffered from it. I had often reasoned with her that since Parkinson’s is not hereditary (there is not a strong correlation of Parkinson’s incidence among close relatives), she had little to fear.
In 2004, my wife, Anne, introduced me to her future cofounders in 23andMe as they were studying the genetics of Parkinson’s Disease. As with my mother’s fear, I was skeptical about the study. I reasoned that if there was much to be learned about Parkinson’s in the genome, there would have to be a high percentage of inherited cases. In fact, I appeared to be right in that this particular study did not bear immediate fruit.
Hoping sooner or later he’ll find a cure for parkinsons disease, also, I’ve been thinking the other google key executives “Eric Schmidt” and “Larry Page” soon have a blogs of their own.