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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...
Autumn Podzunas

Autumn Podzunas

Since I was dx. My legs are weak. My thumbs are useless. My voice is hard to hear sometimes. I was diagnosed with familial ALS on 8/23/19. I have the C9 gene. Since I was dx. My legs are weak. My thumbs are useless. My voice is hard to hear sometimes. I have a...
Jean Swidler

Jean Swidler

I hope that in organizing with other familial ALS family members and participating in research we can increase the standard of care for familial ALS patients, but also hopefully prevent and better treat this terrible disease. My first encounter with ALS was witnessing...

Mindy

It’s important for me to make memories with Nanee. There’s so little time left. This feels so familiar. I take my mother’s hands in mine, try to uncurl them under the faucet. Her left hand is clawed, now permanently stuck, rigored. I don’t exactly know how to wash an...
Daniel Barvin

Daniel Barvin

I now fight to educate others who may be at risk so they can know their options, find a community and take action. For the first 20 years, I was the child and nephew of ALS. As we didn’t have knowledge of Familial ALS, we thought each case of ALS was sporadic....