Daughter Joe
New member
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2009
- Messages
- 4
- Reason
- Loved one DX
- Country
- US
- State
- Utah
- City
- Herriman
Hi I am new to this site, but I have a few questions I was hopeing someone might be able to answer for me. Recently my mom was diagnosed with ALS (March 2008) It is the bulbar ALS and so she no longer can talk, eat, swallow, and finds it hard to breath. This last month she is losing control of her right arm and leg, which makes it difficult to write and walk. My main question is this, this winter she got a small cold which of course everyone was worried would turn into pneumonia, luckily so far it hasn't. With this cold though she has a hard time coughing up anything and when she does cough she has a very siever pain in her chest and right arm. Is this normal? what would cause it? She is on Loratab now, but it seems her coughing fits come more frequently then what the medication can keep up with. If there is any advice or comments on what I could do to help her please let me know. Thank you
Joette
Joette