Knew someone who had ALS. Dreadful disease.
Had a teacher in my High School come down with it... obviously he stopped working before it got to the extreme, but it was sad to watch his decline. Very young too, younger than I am today and had 2 young children.
Just lost a friend from it. Terrible. 3rd person I’ve known to die from it.
Lost my mom to it. Hers progressed rapidly, for which she was glad. She said it was the worst case of claustrophobia because you were trapped in your own body.
My mother died from it.
My grandmother died from ‘total body paralysis.’ (they didn’t know what it was in her time period)
It is not supposed to be hereditary, guess I will ultimately find out.
Best friend’s dad contracted it in his 60s. Remember him saying he didn’t want anyone wiping his @$$. Year or two into it while he was still independent & getting around he was hospitalized but on the day he was being discharged, he had a heart attack & died which I’m sure suited him vs. the alternative.
My brother had that disease. The suffering I saw was frightening. I went to Gleason Graw in New Orleans one year and I found most of the people there had prior military backgrounds, like my brother. Once he was diagnosed with ALS they gave him 100 percent disability.