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Hi Everyone, Many of you have heard about, and seen the commercials for the AMEX Member's Project. Our group Help Stop ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) has made the top 25, and all votes need to be in by July 22nd for us to move up to Top 5. $5 Million for ALS is BIG and we need everyone's help...

Hello all, I thought it would be interesting to know each of your stories (again) on some, but this time in context from start to present, possibly timeline, highlighting important times, such as symptom to diagnosed (or un-diagnosed) to current. I'm particulary interested in: 1) Symptomps...

Dear Al (as well as Others, Awhile back you wrote about having trouble using the Keyboard and talked about some Assistive Technology (AT), in particular Dragon Naturally Speaking. I wrote a rather long response as to how wonderful and helpful this program is but I cannot find that thread or my...

My name is Fortune. I was recently diagnosed with Bulbar ALS after more than a year of changes in my speech and swallowing. I feel unhappy about the difficulty I experience communicating with people particularly on the phone. I hear, "Youv'e got the wrong number."; "Are you drunk?"; "I didn't...

Hi, I'm an occupational therapy student from San Jose, California and I am currently working on a research project on ALS with 2 other classmates. A component of our project is that we need to interview an individual with ALS or a family of their family. We have been trying to find in our...

Printed yesterday in the Globe and Mail... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050929/LIVES29/TPComment/Features Gisèle (mentioned below) is a member of this forum...

Does anyone diagnosed with als live in the mississippi area or in meridian. i am a nursing student interested in having someone speak about their disease to a class of nursing students. please if you know anyone who could come down to my college ( meridian community college) and speak it would...