Markbreton
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2006
- Messages
- 102
- Reason
- Loved one DX
- Diagnosis
- 02/2006
- Country
- CA
- State
- Ontario
- City
- Smiths Falls
My wife, a nurse, was diagnosed on Feb. 14/2006, Valentines Day, with Bulbal ALS. Happy Valentine's Day! Her first symptom was difficulty with swallowing nd some slight slurring of her speech. These symptoms started very shortly after she tripped and fell, quite hard, hitting her head. We thought that she may have damaged a nerve and that was causing her symptoms, Alas not so. Anyway it took only about 6 months to diagnose ALS. Now almost two years later she can no longer speak, she uses a communication device and takes all of her nurishment through a feeding tube. She cannot swallow anything. She only started disability about two weeks ago, she still can drive and do most things. At this point it seems to be her fine motor skills that are affected, like doing up buttons or her bra, etc.
She is SOOOO strong, much stronger than me. I find myself crying quite often and often asking the good person upstairs to take me instead of her, she is far to good a person to be affected by this disease.
Anyway, Tammy, at a recent local walks for ALS, rallied a team together and raised close to $4,000.00. She is not letting this stop her.
There have been many contraversial dicussion on natural medicine vs traditional medicine. We chose to follow both, within reason, and we do feel that it is helping or at least slowing down the progression. But maybe we are fooling ourselves.
Thant's it for now...Happy holidays everyone.
Mark
She is SOOOO strong, much stronger than me. I find myself crying quite often and often asking the good person upstairs to take me instead of her, she is far to good a person to be affected by this disease.
Anyway, Tammy, at a recent local walks for ALS, rallied a team together and raised close to $4,000.00. She is not letting this stop her.
There have been many contraversial dicussion on natural medicine vs traditional medicine. We chose to follow both, within reason, and we do feel that it is helping or at least slowing down the progression. But maybe we are fooling ourselves.
Thant's it for now...Happy holidays everyone.
Mark
