dsabra
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- Loved one DX
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My 70 year old father-in-law has been suffering with "ALS-like" symptoms for 4 years now but has not had the muscle atrophy associated with the disease. The only dignosis from several neurologists - (including one specializing in ALS at the University of Miami) is a progressive neurological disorder of unknown origin.
He was healthy his entire life and then startered to experience weakness in his arms and legs, tripping and falling, slurred speach, shaking of the limbs. It has progressed to the point where he can no longer speak and is confined to a wheelchair. It screams ALS but nobody will confirm my uneducated diagnosis.
As the disease progressed we purchased all the equipment we thought would make his life easier, walkers, Jazzy, hoverround, special toilets, a lift to get him in and out of his bed, rehabbed his bedroom and bathorooms taking out walls to make getting to the toilet easier etc. etc.. It seems we are in a continual quest to keep up with this disease
I now need a recommendation on two pieces of additional equipment.
1. A speech augmentation device
2. A hoist to move him from his wheelchair to a chair in the living room (He is quite heavy 280 lbs and his wife is rather small)
You all seem so knowledgable and I could really use your expertese.
Thanks
Doug
He was healthy his entire life and then startered to experience weakness in his arms and legs, tripping and falling, slurred speach, shaking of the limbs. It has progressed to the point where he can no longer speak and is confined to a wheelchair. It screams ALS but nobody will confirm my uneducated diagnosis.
As the disease progressed we purchased all the equipment we thought would make his life easier, walkers, Jazzy, hoverround, special toilets, a lift to get him in and out of his bed, rehabbed his bedroom and bathorooms taking out walls to make getting to the toilet easier etc. etc.. It seems we are in a continual quest to keep up with this disease
I now need a recommendation on two pieces of additional equipment.
1. A speech augmentation device
2. A hoist to move him from his wheelchair to a chair in the living room (He is quite heavy 280 lbs and his wife is rather small)
You all seem so knowledgable and I could really use your expertese.
Thanks
Doug