a desease or what............

[johnnyliverpool1]

......motor neuron desease they call it...but why a desease....cos all they got is a collection of signs symptoms and no cause....just a syndrome..i.e. motor neuron syndrome it should be called....johnnypooler....am i right or am i right...

 

[arkallen]

I'm medically illeterate, but I think your'e onto something!

 

[susanf]

I agree Johnny, they lump us under the ALS umbrella.

 

[notgivnup]

I agree also, as I read the word ALS I immediaitly thought of..A-lways L-osing S-omething. Just thought I would share.

 

[Alyoop]

It certainly causes Dis. Ease though.......... I tell people I have an UMN syndrome, that's exactly what it is!

 

[Al]

Saw a commercial yesterday and it said that at present there 14,000 diseases on record. No wonder it takes so long for some to be diagnosed.

AL.

 

[aditzvetkova]

And new ones appear all the time... I am of the opinion that medicine is least developed concerning the human brain.

 

[Alyoop]

I just finished reading the memoirs of a well known Australian surgeon who was dying of a brain tumour. He mentioned early on in the book, that he would never specialize in neurology because half the patients don't get a diagnosis and when they do, the illnesses are not curable.......spot on.

 

[Susan10]

Notgivnup - I love your name for ALS - always losing something! I distinctly recall saying "good-bye" to my left hand/arm this summer - the day I knew, in spite of no diagnosis, that it was never coming back.

Ten years ago, I took care of my mother who had Alzheimer's. It's known as "the long good-bye" for the caregivers. ALS is the long good-bye for the people who have it - goodbye to each body part.

You guys and this forum are a God-send!:lol:

 

[johnnyliverpool1]

roderick... am not medically illiterate.. am just thick....but what a good place to be ..cos wat u dont know dont hurt.......soft lad...

 

[arkallen]

roderick... am not medically illiterate.. am just thick....but what a good place to be ..cos wat u dont know dont hurt.......soft lad...

Well Johnny, I don't know what it is, but it hurts!