Recent content by Rickey

Thanks to all of you for your encouragement, I've been away on a short trip for a few days so haven't checked this site for almost a week. I found a picture of myself holding a small Xmas present with my right hand, taken about 18 years ago. The size of my thenar muscles looked the same then...

Thanks for your encouraging words, Al. I know some people have much more to worry about. I've always been a "worrier" so it doesn't take much to set me off. I'll keep y'all posted as time passes.

Hi Al, I was tested at Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, London, Ont. by Dr. Micheal Strong, who is certainly well known in Canada as an ALS clinician and researcher. So, if he looked me straight in the eye and said "You don't have ALS!", maybe I should just accept it, hard as it is...

Hello all, I am a new member who has been through testing and have been told by people who should know that I don't have als. And yet, I just have trouble accepting it because my symptoms are so suggestive of early limb onset als. My right thumb, esp the extensor pollicis brevis (on the meaty...