What Is Up with Lou G. Everywhere?

[StephG22]

Even my favorite ice cream shop has a huge photo of Lou G. on the wall. I watch antiques Roadshow and someone is getting a Lou G. card appraised. The list of "reminders" goes on, but our eyes are always going to pick up on these words because we are so worried.

 

[ydav3yat3s]

At the height of my ALS scare, I had a flight where I sat right in front of the movie screen. As my luck would have it, they showed a long documentary on Lou Gehrig.

 

[SgcPuppy567]

I sat down to eat dinner recently (during the height of my ALS scare) and we started to watch a local news show (Boston) called "Chronicle". Now --- we NEVER watch this show, but, it was just starting as we were about to eat so we kept it on the channel.

Right away I knew what it was about when the reporter mentioned something like " .... then he was unable to turn the key to get into his house."

The show was about Steve Heywood -- an ALS patient in Mass. whose brother (Jamie) started ALS-TDF -- an organization created to find a cure for ALS.

The whole thing was creepy because I had been reading about Steve and ALS that same day.

The show was interesting -- but -- very very sad. Steve is now on a ventilator 24/7 and in the late-stages of the disease. Seeing him in his wheelchair unable to move anything but his eyes -- well -- it was all distressing.

It made me appreciate my own health -- for like 10 minutes -- and then I began obsessing that I have ALS again ..

Will it ever end?