ALS is just a nasty, evil disease. Your body becomes your prison.
“”ALS is just a nasty, evil disease.””
So, so true! Horrible!
Took my mom. Awful and cruel disease.
My mom used to say she’d rather have any disease than dementia.
She got ALS instead, and it took her in 5 months. She told me that it worse than anything she could have imagined. She was so claustrophobic and she asked my sister and I to move some part of her body every few minutes. It was just horrific for her.
My FiL recently died of dementia, after dx 10 years ago.
Of the two, I would say in the later stages, ALS Is harder on the sufferer, while dementia is harder on the loved ones. Both were very hard, though.
It is an evil disease. You are trapped inside a body that shuts down piece by piece and there is nothing you can do.
God bless his soul and I hope God holds him close.
I have a couple of friends who ultimately sucummed to that horrible disease. Just watching them waste away over time was heart breaking
Back in 1977 my very first Missile Combat Crew Commander was a LtCol. He was the last LtCol to be a normal, everyday, Line Crew Commander.
He put in his retirement papers only a couple of months after I was placed on his crew and was diagnosed with ALS during his out-processing. He passed away about a year later.
He was one of the best men and officer I ever knew. Why does ALS seem to always take the good ones?