Fitnurse
New member
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2017
- Messages
- 2
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 01/2016
- Country
- Uni
- State
- OH
- City
- University Heights
I'm a 65 year old single male living alone with ALS. I was diagnosed in February of 2016 but the symptoms started a year before that. I'm in an apartment close to two siblings who work but come in to see me often, and I have a good friend nearby who comes by daily. I am wheelchair bound, cannot use my legs much and still have good upper body strength. My ability to speak, chew and swallow is diminishing fast lately. I have made all final arrangements, advance directives (no life-sustaining efforts), body donation to Cleveland Clinic where I once worked as a registered nurse, now retired. Living alone with this has made me very creative as to how I manage to accomplish activities of daily living. Just wondering how many others out there are living alone with ALS.