Jackjackattack
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- May 21, 2010
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- CALS
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- IL
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- C'dale
I realize that everyone has a different progression and what not, but I just wondered if anyone could help. My mom has had ALS for ten years now, and while she's been "stable", as stable as one can be when one's health is constantly deteriorating, the progression has always been slow. Recently, last Sunday it got very hard for her to work her left side and speak, though she had always been able to speak and up until then still carry on lengthy conversations/debates with me. So now things have drastically changed for me in a couple of days. Speech is very limited and mobility all but gone, and while eating/drinking were hard and time consuming she retained a lot of independence in drinking from a straw and even working out a system of taking pills, she now is almost entirely dependent on me, my dad and sister for everything. Last year around this time her left eye did odd things, lost some sight, but eventually it all cleared up. Finally, I arrive at the actual question portion of this question, I hope someone has stuck around, does this sound odd? Is there anyone that had a slow progressing case that had a big crash of some kind? Could this be a stroke? Does ALS increase risk of stroke? I didn't find anything on the internet to back this up. Is there a case where things like this ever get any better, like the way that weird eye thing did? And the worst part but most important to ask, what should I expect to come?