rictak in IA
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- ruthven
Hi, I'm a 41 yr old handyman/carpnter from NW Iowa. My beautiful wife is 37 and was diagnosed in may of this year. mostly weakness and stiffness in her left side, no breathing or swallowing issues. I doubt she will ever come around to forums like this, kind of an ignoance is bliss sort of thing with her, so I spend alot of time researching/planning/nudging her in the right direction where ever I can:smile:
We are lucky to be living 3.5 hours from Mayo in Rochester, and have her parents be a 30 mn drive from there for when we need to spend overnights. We are in the Deprex. study right now starting her 4th mo.
We have 2 kids,7 and 1, the 7 year old knows somthing is up, but we havn't had any real disscusions about ALS yet. We are taking a week vacation to Disney, leaving sat. It will be my wifes first time in electric chair. and that might spark a few more substancial talks with my daughter.
I only recently found this forum, and spent the first few months on a thread I started over on a music board that I'm part of called "three dimes down.com" the thread is called "mrs W in IA" its full of foul language bad grammer and late night, insomniac rammblings. So veiwer beware. But it does follow my mindset for the first few months, if you're interested,
Oh yeah, and the spelling... yeah, be ready for the spelling.
Anyway, just wanted to get in the game around here, glad I found you.
We are lucky to be living 3.5 hours from Mayo in Rochester, and have her parents be a 30 mn drive from there for when we need to spend overnights. We are in the Deprex. study right now starting her 4th mo.
We have 2 kids,7 and 1, the 7 year old knows somthing is up, but we havn't had any real disscusions about ALS yet. We are taking a week vacation to Disney, leaving sat. It will be my wifes first time in electric chair. and that might spark a few more substancial talks with my daughter.
I only recently found this forum, and spent the first few months on a thread I started over on a music board that I'm part of called "three dimes down.com" the thread is called "mrs W in IA" its full of foul language bad grammer and late night, insomniac rammblings. So veiwer beware. But it does follow my mindset for the first few months, if you're interested,
Oh yeah, and the spelling... yeah, be ready for the spelling.
Anyway, just wanted to get in the game around here, glad I found you.