Ben,
IMHO Aspirin is a marvelous drug, and incredibly cheap in the US- you can buy 500 standard tabs at Walmart for about a quid(!)
Professor Elliott went to Russia in February to oversee research involving Pig Islet cells to cure Type I diabetes, which I assume is what you have. If his theory is right, a cure is literally around the corner.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
