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Jennifer Pickard

He has always been like Superman! It is an awful journey to see what’s happening to him rapidly. To the ALS community, My dad was diagnosed a year ago. It is happening so quickly. We are desperate to get him some drug that will stop it. We are desperate to find it. He...
DeVona Hickerson

DeVona Hickerson

This disease is a beast, and I will be a voice for critical therapies and a cure until I can be heard no more. My name is DeVona Hickerson. I was diagnosed with ALS on March 5, 2021. I was a very active person. In fact, in the fall of 2020, I was riding a bike on...
Brian Larson

Brian Larson

We took several great trips in the first couple of years, but he eventually became wheelchair-bound and his world shrank to what he could access through his eye gaze computer. At 28 years old, my son Ryan was thriving in his career, owned a house, and had a great...
Jenny Smolinski

Jenny Smolinski

Parenting young kids with ALS adds another layer to an already difficult path of living with ALS, but every day I pray a treatment is discovered so no families have to go through this. I am currently 43 but was diagnosed at age 35 in 2013 when my daughters were 1 and...
Panagiota Karahalios

Panagiota Karahalios

We wanted to enjoy our kids and grandkids and enjoy each other while he was working to be retired. My husband is waiting for a cure!! He does not have enough time to wait for 5 years. Not for a death sentence! He was working as a carpenter for 40 years. He worked very...