Wow that is a "sweet" looking ride. You need to get a letter from your doctor, saying that you have ALS. My youngest son has Tourette's and while he was still in school there were a lot of trials. No he didn't have the swearing tick, but he did bark and whinny like a horse at times. One day he came home from his new high school saying that I might be getting a call from the librarian. He said that he was having difficulty with his whinnying tick and the librarian came up to him and told him to stop. He explained to her that he had Tourette's and couldn't control it and her reply was that if he didn't stop she was going to tell his mother. He told her that I already knew that he had Tourette's, but she didn't get it. His study class ended so he left, but I wish that she had called me. I had gone to a 2 hour conference at the school about my son, so that they would know how to manage him. Not only did he have Tourette's he was born with a severe hear defect and had had 3 open heart procedures by that time. The week before he came home excited to tell me that he had run 3 miles in gym class. I just about dropped what was in my hands, and asked how he managed. He said that after the first mile he found it really hard so went up to the gym teacher and told her, he was having problems because of his heart. She thought he was just giving her a line, until he lifted up his T-shirt and showed her his scar. After that she told him that he could walk the rest.
I had to call the principle and ask why none of the information that we talked about in the conference had been passed on to the people that needed to know. Just a bit of a note, my son is now 6'3" and a plumber gas fitter and does very well, even though he has had 4 surgeries. After his last surgery I was told that when that new valve failed he would have to have a transplant as he had so much scarring from his surgeries that he wouldn't survive another one. Since then they have developed a technique that allows them to change the valve intravascularly, so no more open heart surgeries required.
We went shopping for July 4th and then to my sister's for supper where desert had red white and blue for Tim. (strawberries, raspberries, and blue berries with vanilla ice-cream, with Gran mariner, and Kahlua poured over. We celebrate July 1st here in Canada.
Paulette