- mountainrain
- Sex: M
- Data Quality: 2 stars
- ALS: 4 yrs
- Bi-Pap Wheelchair
- Bulbar: mild
- Arms: moderate
- Chest: moderate
- Legs: moderate
- mountainrain
- Male, 55 years
- Westminster, CO
- Primary Condition
- ALS
- First symptom
- Sep 2007
- Diagnosis
- Jun 2008
About mountainrain
Still working but, using walls to walk now and repeated back flips onto concrete has led me to some wheels... The disease may have been triggered by new retail sales job. Since it was commission sales, I rarely ate or drank enough fluids, until I started being awakened by leg cramps, and hand cramps. But, still I pushed on.
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But, it was when I tripped landing face first on the kitchen floor breaking a bowl of fruit between my teeth and the wood floor, breaking my nose, plus cutting my head, I thought perhaps I should go to a doctor...
The doctor checked me and heard the above story also could make my left leg vibrate and noticed how thin my left hand was and said I should see a Neurologist asap. She pointed to my palm and showed me how the tendoms were visible or sunk inward...
Now two Neuros later, here I am...