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:grin: Hi, There Friendly People! I know I'm a bit slow about posting :roll: because I'm working on the "Family Memoir". HOWEVER, I'll try to post "spiritual funnies" when I can. *Just because people are "spiritual" doesn't mean they don't like jokes. They just have to be ones we can show...

We set my darling husband, Matt, free today. He made me promise to do it, but he clung to life even when life offered him nothing but pain. He was a fighter to the end. He was comfortable, and he did not appear distressed--but he was stronger than anyone imagined. He was surrounded by his...

I was personally very grateful to see a camp offerred to the minor children and grandchildren of PALS. As a CALS I was overwhelmed with gratitude when I saw the notice. Just wonderful, I thought, I wept and sent the notice on to my daughters in law who might want to participate with our...

I have been having unusual symptoms since a couple of weeks after the birth of my third child in April although things seem to have really progressed since late July. ALS only really appeared on my radar about 3 weeks ago when I felt my speech was changing. I have copied my main concerns below...

long story short. my grandfathers side of the family has familial als. My grandfathers brother got the disease and died within two years. there mother had als and there grandmother also had als. although my grandfather did not get als. neither did his other 3 sisters or other brother get the...

Good morning. 32 years old with two young children and pregnant with my third. Undergoing testing for a neurological issue, with ALS as one clinical possibility although I have no been formally or even informally diagnosed yet. I have life insurance through my employer but no private policy. I...

Thankyou for your time. I'm a 35yo mum of 2 young children, and initially visited a neuro 2 years ago to assess numbness of the skin on my big toes - I realise numbness points away from ALS, but want to give a full picture. It persisted and he said to re-visit if it hadn't improved so I did...

Hello everyone, I 'm french, my father died of als in 2015, he had done genetic testing but the results went after his death and then nobody told us anything. We all assume that it was sporadic. Then, in 2016 my sister went under a IVF procedure and needed the results, bingo: c9orf72. At this...

“AUTHORITIES IN FLORIDA are searching for two men who left an injured alligator at a convenience store. ‘“No, No,”’ said the alligator. “It’s all right. They said they’d see me later’”. AS A WOMAN WAS watching a soap opera, her husband asked, “How can you cry over imaginary problems of...

I’ve had body wide twitching for 6 months. Went to neurologist after three months and got a clean EMG on right arm and leg. Have been in a total of five times for clinical exams (due to my anxiety of ALS - requested appointments with him) - all of which have come back non remarkable. He told me...