Mistie Reed
I was doing a job I loved and working toward my degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Life was perfect. The first time I fell, I was at work and leading a store meeting. I was the assistant store manager at a large retail grocery/pharmacy store. My husband...Robert Abernathy
Over the year, walking became more difficult and she suspected MS. Her neurologist instead diagnosed ALS and predicted she would have 2 to 5 years to live. Our lives changed completely since then. My wife and I were married in 2006. We were both already over 40 but...
Don Bloom
The Lou Gehrig monument was my introduction to his story and he became a childhood hero of mine. … Little did I know that 61 years later I would be diagnosed with ALS. In 1956, a few months before my eighth birthday, my dad took me to Yankee Stadium for the...