Bumping into BOOPers

The other day on the train, we bumped into a neighborhood friend who is a Rabbi. We hadn't seen each other in a while, so I brought her up to date.

When I started to define BOOP, she told me there was no need -- one of her congregants had it.

So I passed along my information and encouraged the congregant to be in touch.

That same morning, I heard from a Friend-of-a-Friend. She too, had had BOOP, in the past and gave me some vital information about what to expect over the next few months.

In July, I heard about another BOOPer, the husband of my dental hygienist's patient.

My pulmonologist says he is treating 3 or 4 patients with it.

I don't know what it is, perhaps our urban environment, but I do seem to be tripping over BOOPers. I'm getting the feeling BOOP is not as "rare" as we think.

I'm collecting a lot of information about how this disease presents and how it is treated.

If you have stories to tell....I'm really interested to hear!

A note about fate.

It turns out the Rabbi had missed the previous train, and thus bumped into MyMan and me. And so she noted, it was, as we say in Hebrew, b'shaert, meant to be, that she miss that train and meet me. She would provide the blog address and contact information to her congregant.