Karen Pless

Aug 10, 2024

I want to be around for my children, my grandbabies and everyone else. I WANT TO LIVE! I was diagnosed three years ago this month. Before this monster took hold of my life, I was an independent mom, Mimi, daughter, sister and girlfriend who was working and living...

Kim Redzimski

Aug 10, 2024

We had plans to continue those adventures well into our senior years, and now those dreams have vanished. I’m a woman who fought hard to overcome a difficult childhood and create a stable, healthy life for myself. I have a wonderful husband that I’ve shared many...

Kristina Nelson

Aug 10, 2024

It’s important for the general population and the medical community to know who we are and what the faces of ALS look like. My fight began in 2015 with some simple balance issues and tripping over myself. I was sent to multiple doctors in multiple disciplines,...

Laurel Eppstein

Aug 10, 2024

I am not ALS. I am the same me I’ve always been, but I have a disease called ALS.

Lesley Krummel

Aug 10, 2024

I’ll continue to do all I can to raise awareness of the need for funding to find a cure. I am a 57-year-old woman from Iowa. I was diagnosed with ALS in May 2018. … I’ve gone to Washington, D.C. to advocate for ALS, and I’ll continue to do all I can to raise...