LuckyDuck
New member
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- Mar 21, 2009
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- 3
- Reason
- CALS
- Country
- CA
- State
- B.C.
- City
- North Vancouver
First of all, thank you to everyone who replied to my first thread "Head Trauma as a Cause of ALS". To update you all, we have decided to NOT proceed with litigation against the driver who rear-ended our stopped taxi in Las Vegas as we have been advised by 2 lawyers that we would not be successful in court in establishing the Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) as a "cause" of my wife's subsequent development of ALS 3 months later.
For the record though, I would like to make a distinction between "cause" and "trigger". No one thing by itself causes another thing. It takes several causes and conditions to come together to produce an effect. This is the Buddhist definition of karma. So, my belief is that HEAD TRAUMA CAN BE A TRIGGER OF ALS which is different from saying that HEAD TRAUMA CAUSES ALS. In our case, I believe that the MVA was the final precipitating TRIGGER for the onset of ALS.
BuddhaJohn
For the record though, I would like to make a distinction between "cause" and "trigger". No one thing by itself causes another thing. It takes several causes and conditions to come together to produce an effect. This is the Buddhist definition of karma. So, my belief is that HEAD TRAUMA CAN BE A TRIGGER OF ALS which is different from saying that HEAD TRAUMA CAUSES ALS. In our case, I believe that the MVA was the final precipitating TRIGGER for the onset of ALS.
BuddhaJohn