I am sorry I haven't responded to this sooner. I am not very good with forums and didn't know the message was here till this week.
My husband never told me he was having symptoms. He would say that he was getting old before his time. He used to plan on what he would do once the weekend but when the weekend came, he would spend most of it on the couch. I guess he was just worn out from fighting the onset of this sickness while working a full time, totally physical job. He started having problems with dropping things. It kept getting worse so I thought he had carpal tunnel. He told me there was nothing wrong with him, but then he started falling. He always had an excuse for the falls, but it was obvious that something was wrong. By then the weakness in his hand had spread to his arm and he was struggling more with that. At that point he went to a hand doctor and said he had carpal tunnel.