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Every Sunday a lady would put a $10 dollar Scratch Off LotteryTticket in the collection basket. After several weeks the pastor, from the pulpit, got to see the lady doing it as the collection basket was being passed around. At the end of the service he quickly walked out to the door with his...

My 55 yo husband has had neurological symptoms for a couple of years and was just told by a neurologist that ALS is "the front runner" in terms of his diagnosis. His grandmother died 30 years ago at 82 of what they were told was something "ALS-like". She was diagnosed in her late 70s. The...

Hello, I'm 17 years old and over the past couple of days I have been experiencing muscle spasms in both my legs but only when I sit and lay down and sometimes my arms, I also rarely get them in my side and butt, I don't really feel weak in my muscles but sometimes sore, sometimes after I walk...

Hello I am 25 and lost my uncle to als last year he passed away at 50 years of age with als the same with his mother and his grandmother as well all with als. We have just found out it is in our family 100%. I am now worried although i know it mostly strikes at an older age i am having trouble...

Hi all, Thank you for taking the time to read this. I will be as clear as can be: I am 23 years old. In late May, I noticed a reduction on the size of my right arm. In the gym this was accompanied by a reduction in strength. Motions such as curling and pulling felt as though certain muscles...

I simply cannot get too upset about my ALS. Could this be a mental problem? 1) People die everyday from hurricanes, accidents and horrible cancers. I am alive today, and I may be alive ten years from now. 2) None of my family have suffered from bad health, mental illness or accidents. I can't...

That is what this forum is to me. I am happy for any constructive, supportive things I can do for others but I honestly just love how I can say what I mean here about my own life. People ask me how Brian is, bless their hearts. I appreciate it, and I say he is okay/stable. I may change that to...

Hi all, Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this. I am going to do my best to keep this succinct. Any help and feedback is tremendously appreciated. Here is what's going on: In 2011 I lost my mother to ALS. In 2009 my grandmother passed away from MS. I am 26 years old, and...

Hello....A close friend has been diagnosed with bulbar ALS 4/2016. She has a wonderful husband, 2 parents close by, & 3 young adult children. One still in HS with my children. She & her family have kept her diagnosis private. She spoke to me about it July 2016. I have been honoring her...

In January, I went for a walk when I was in Chicago for work. I was alarmed to feel my right foot drop as I walked. Nowhere in my imagination did I think it would be ALS. I got a neurologist appointment and he did some tests and sent me for first a neck and then head MRI. The report stated that...