Hi, my name is Sam and I haven't been on here in a while. My mother, Violet, was diagnosed with BPB in January of 2012. At that time her speach was almost gone. In late July 1012 she received her PEG tube. Within a week she had lost all capacity to swallow any food and relies on the PEG for...
My mother was diagnosed with Progressive Bulbar Palsy in January. Symptons started about a year and a half ago. She will be 88 next week and has no other systems of ALS. We are lucky and thankful for that. She lives alone and still drives to the grocery, church and hair appointments.
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