Amanda529
Member
- Joined
- Nov 6, 2007
- Messages
- 20
- Reason
- Loved one DX
- Country
- US
- State
- OH
- City
- Berlin Heights
Just this week my dad has been having problems with his hands. He has a hard time buttoning up shirts and on Sunday the cashier gave him change back he dropped the coins on the counter. To me it looked like he could not control his hand. I personally think he is losing his motor skills in his hands is there a way to tell this? He is now at the point you cannot understand him. I am waiting on a call back from his ALS doctor to find out how you get a communication device. It breaks my heart to tell my dad each day I can't understand him because I know it makes him mad. You can understand him at first when he talks and the more he talks he mumbles and all the words run together. I have said this before I hate this disease and it is so evil. I would not wish this disease on anyone! This is really affecting me a lot because I hate seeing my dad this way! I am my dad's girl even though I am 27 I am still my daddies girl! My doctor just recently put me on depression medication because since he was diagnosed on 8/8/07 it really has torn me apart I have been a nervous wreck and my emotions are so high. I lost my best friend Trevor in 8/04 and I thought that was the toughest thing I would ever go through boy was I wrong! I just don't know how to stay positive when I know he is slowly going down hill and is going to eventually die. I honestly don't want that day to come for years but I know that will not happen. Okay I did a lot of venting thanks for listening. God Bless!