Medical
Real and Fake Medications and Treatments
Numerous medications and treatments have been touted to relieve or even “cure” ALS. I urge extreme caution. We found that many did nothing for our son.
Numerous medications and treatments have been touted to relieve or even “cure” ALS. I urge extreme caution. We found that many did nothing for our son.
We used two primary kinds of patient lifts for our son: floor-based and ceiling-based. I also include a few others that we didn’t use.
This guide entry discusses all the issues with head drop, along with the equipment we bought or acquired and the equipment I made at home.
My mother-in-law once said, “If you’re having a foot problem, go to a doctor who got an ‘A’ in foot.”
Our son, Jeremy, loved all kinds of physical activities, like snowboarding, skiing, running, rock climbing, and especially sailing.
From our experience taking care of our son, professionals saw him only during an office visit or home visit, so they had just 15-minute snapshots separated by weeks and months.
When our son, Jeremy, had to stop working and go on disability, his employer provided a patient advocate for him. She was a godsend.
ALS researchers and doctors have listed numerous possible causes of ALS: heredity, age, gender, genetics, extreme athletics, smoking, environmental toxin exposure, military service, stress, impacts.
As our son’s condition worsened, we tried a number of shower chairs. Here are the pros and cons of several types.
