I want to start something new.. Grabbed this from Wikipedia: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—also referred to as motor neurone disease (MND), Charcot disease, and, in the United States, Lou Gehrigs disease—is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It is characterised by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to muscle atrophy, difficulty in speaking (dysarthria), swallowing (dysphagia), and breathing (dyspnea). ALS is the most common of the five motor neuron diseases. The earliest symptoms of ALS are typically obvious weakness and/or muscle atrophy. Other presenting symptoms include trouble swallowing, cramping, or stiffness of affected muscles; muscle weakness affecting an arm or a leg; and/or slurred and nasal speech. The parts of the body affected by early symptoms of ALS depend on which motor neurons in the body are damaged first. About 75% of people contracting the disease experience limb onset ALS, i.e., first symptoms in the arms or legs. Patients with the leg onset form may experience awkwardness when walking or running or notice that they are tripping or stumbling, often with a dropped foot which drags gently along the ground. Arm-onset patients may experience difficulty with tasks requiring manual dexterity such as buttoning a shirt, writing, or turning a key in a lock. Occasionally, the symptoms remain confined to one limb for a long period of time or for the whole length of the illness; this is known as monomelic amyotrophy. I nominate Andrew Jeffers Ronny Plett Owen H Steven Kempa Asia Mae McGlinchey Hannah R Hergott Randy Dueck and whoever truly wants to help make a difference and spread awareness for ALS to copy and paste this information as a status. You have no time frame to complete this as I believe all of you are of high character and do not require a time constraint. #themoreyouknow #alsicebucketchallenge #als #lougherigsdisease #lougherigdisease
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 02:21:22 +0000
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