Piner
New member
- Joined
- Oct 4, 2015
- Messages
- 2
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 10/2015
- Country
- US
- State
- Colorado
- City
- Canon City
My husband was just diagnosed with ALS. In December of last year, he was the pedestrian,in a pedestrian vs auto accident. Shortly before the accident,he complained of losing strength in his left hand and we noticed some twitching under the skin. We thought it might be arthritis,and didn't do anything for it. In December, he was hit by a pickup while crossing a highway,from the motel to a truckstop. He ended up with a shattered pelvis,broken hip,his spine was broken away from his pelvis. He also had internal bleeding. After ten days in the hospital,I brought him home to Colorado. He started going to physical therapy and learning how to walk again. We thought we were so lucky that he was still alive. After several weeks in physical therapy, his therapist commented on the fact that his muscles in his right hand were wasting and then he saw the fasciculations in both of his arms. He told my husband that day, that he knew it was ALS, because he had recently lost a friend with ALS and lost two other members from his church. I hated the man for what he told my husband. I felt that a physical therapist was not qualified to make that assumption. He then contacted the primary doctor in my husbands care to order some EMG's. Which they did, he was sent to a physiatrist. He confirmed what we were told by the therapist. But just to make sure, he sent my husband to a neurologist, which took 3 months to get into. On Friday, he got was actually able to send him up for more EMGs, after a cancelled appointment from someone else,when we went back to see the doctor,he came in and gave the diagnosis. My husband was in the Navy, and has already contacted the VA, they said to come right in when he had the actual diagnosis. We are scared. He was having the symptoms a good three months at least before the accident. Now his left hand is showing the same symptoms.