westjlittle
Active member
- Joined
- Dec 12, 2006
- Messages
- 57
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- October 2006
- Country
- US
- State
- CO
- City
- Denver
I am wondering how many people are still working with fairly advanced ALS. My example would be Stephen Hawking. He is basically completely disabled yet he holds a job and has aides to assist him.
It seems like there are jobs that could be performed with fairly advanced ALS. I write software. I am wondering how long I can reasonably expect to work. All I need to do is move the mouse, type. Over the past week, maybe 10% of my time required things I won't be able to do in the long term. Worst case you're using an eye monitor to move the mouse.
So, the questions are
- How reasonable is that?
- Is anyone doing it now?
- Has anyone tried it and failed?
Any comments?
Jim West
It seems like there are jobs that could be performed with fairly advanced ALS. I write software. I am wondering how long I can reasonably expect to work. All I need to do is move the mouse, type. Over the past week, maybe 10% of my time required things I won't be able to do in the long term. Worst case you're using an eye monitor to move the mouse.
So, the questions are
- How reasonable is that?
- Is anyone doing it now?
- Has anyone tried it and failed?
Any comments?
Jim West