Our Mother
New member
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2009
- Messages
- 6
- Reason
- Loved one DX
- Country
- US
- State
- W VA
- City
- Salem
Hi everyone. I am new on this site. See my mother has ALS.She has 7 kids. (5 daughter and 2 sons) We have never been around or even known any one that had ALS. We realy dont know when it started. But we do know 2 years ago in Sept. Iwas diagnosed with breast cancer. Mom was with me all the way. That is when we started to notice her speech slipping some. We just choped it up to stress. It Just was getting worst. so we sat down with her and talk to her about this. She agreed to go to the Doctor. They said she had a stroke. So we was treating her for that. But her speech was dont getting any better. Then we notice she could not swallow right.So we had that test done. Well we chocked on that. She did not get to finsh that. To make a long story short. Test after test. We had a answer, ALS. Her tongue don't move real well. It is getting very hard to understand her. She is choking alot. she can't eat or even take her med. with out choking. She hads alot of mucus. Its so sad to watch her. She put her had between her legs just to try to get it up to where we can get it for her. Her left arm is getting where she can't move it at all. ( she is a left handed person. So her writing is not any good) Her right arm is not any better. Her head is starting to drop to the left. She is so not good on her legs at all. She has no strength at all. So here is where I need your help? What can we do for her to make it easy for her? What is going to happen next so we can be ready for? We are all scared, we would love to make this easy on her.(as much as we can) Give has any thing you can. Please I hope I explained this right to you all. ( sorry if any thing is spelled wrong ,nervous here