Hello everyone, my name is Mary and yesterday we received confirmation that my 70 year old mother has ALS. I'm reading everything I can lay my hands on to learn as much as possible to fain an understanding of what lies ahead for her. So far, there seems to be no definitive way of staging the disease. She didn't complain of symptoms to anyone, but took a serious fall hitting her head very hard back in May and things have gone downhill ever since for her.
She is havng difficulty swallowing, especially liquids and pills seems to be choking on her own saliva. She has been tripping and falling a lot. Her leg muscles are showing extreme weakness.
With her first fall in May, she hurt her shoulder and we're told is in need of a shoulder replacement. The injury happened at her work, so we arre mixed up in a workers compensation claim in the midst of the ALS diagnosis. It's now been 7 months since her fall and her shoulder has not been fixed due to the choking/swallowing issues. We're also attempting to have her get disability retirement. does anyone know if there are doumented cases of hard hits to the head triggering ALS? We're not sure which came first and she of course is blaming everything om the initial fall in May.
She is havng difficulty swallowing, especially liquids and pills seems to be choking on her own saliva. She has been tripping and falling a lot. Her leg muscles are showing extreme weakness.
With her first fall in May, she hurt her shoulder and we're told is in need of a shoulder replacement. The injury happened at her work, so we arre mixed up in a workers compensation claim in the midst of the ALS diagnosis. It's now been 7 months since her fall and her shoulder has not been fixed due to the choking/swallowing issues. We're also attempting to have her get disability retirement. does anyone know if there are doumented cases of hard hits to the head triggering ALS? We're not sure which came first and she of course is blaming everything om the initial fall in May.
