sanderson
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- Feb 25, 2009
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- Loved one DX
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- sussex
HI there, I am new posting to this forum. My 84 year old father was diagnosed with ALS Feb 09. He has lost most of the use of his arms and his legs are weakening very quickly. He requires total assistance with all his personal care. We have a very good medical support team, family support and dad has 24 hour care as he moved into a veterans hospital this past fall. I have been reading the posts for a while and they have given me support and strength. My dad is an amazing man and an amzing father, grandfather. I have many questions and sometimes I just want to rage at this life event, but that doesn't seem serve any purpose. My question is in the last few days, dad has expereinced 2 episodes of not being able to speak. He just couldn't get the words out, or if he was able to make a sound, they sounded like gibberish. This lasted anout 20 mins each time. In your experiences, does this intermittent speech loss continue for a long time or does it quickly move into total loss of speech. Also , while we are always on the alert for swallowing difficulties, does this now mean we are heading in that direction as well( quicker than before he expereinced this speech loss?)