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My mother was diagnozed in April, 05 with ALS. She was 86 years old. At the time her speech was fine but she was having trouble walking with the drop foot thing. Initially she was diagnosed with arthritis, but after multipe tests it was ALS. she passed away July 4, 06. Her speech did go by...

Thank you so much for allyour replies. I took mom to the doctor today, which was no easy task. The doctor said the muscles spasm and put her on a muscle relaxant plus an anti inflamatory drug. she said it would take about a week or so. So for now the nursing home is pureeing her food which...

I was feeding my mother lunch today and all of a sudden she complained of a sore jaw on the right side. She spelt out on her board that it felt like her jaw was out of alignment and when she tried to chew it was very painful. The gals at the nursing home checked her out and looked at her bite...

I am so sorry to hear about your Mom. My Mom also went through that stage. The O.T. got involved and supplied us with a transfer disc that helped get her from point A to point B. She stood on this disc and it rotated or swiveled her. Mom just hung on to us. This worked for awhile. It was...

chiropractor therapy using electrodes Thanks for the reply. right now we are using a board with the alphabet on it and she will try and point to the letters to spell out words. sometimes I can guess the word before she finishes which speeds things along. she is right handed and her right...

I have read somewhere in the messages that someone had gone to a chiropractor for therapy using electrodes, I think, to help stimulate the voice. I cannot seem to find where I read this. I remember reading about the five points that were contacted in the ear, I think. If anyone wrote this I...

Bathroom If her chair could get her to the toilet there is a disc that she could stand on and then rotate onto the toilet. My mother used that until she could no longer stand. Now they use a lift to transfer her from chair to toilet. My mom also had a portable toilet, commode, that she...

I will try the plain paper with large letters printed so she can point to it. Never thought of that. No she cannot write as her right hand is pretty much immobilized. She still can use her left hand even though it has limited movement. She still can feed herself using her left hand so that...

I got a magnetic alphabet board for my mother. When I went to see her with it she was not impressed and started crying. I just left it on her table and tried to explain that perhaps it would help in communicating. She did not seeminterested at all. when I went this a.m. to visit her I...

I would like to thank you for the replies. I am waiting for a therapist to come and give her another assessment for things she could add to her electric wheel chair to keep her sitting properly and sometype of trough thing that would hold her right arm on the arm rest instead of falling off all...

This is my first time to write. I am new at this. My mother is 86 and has ALS. She is right handed and that no longer works as well as her speech is very garbled. What can I do to help her communicate with her nursing home staff and with me? She has limited movement with her left hand but...