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Three letters that had absolutely no meaning to me two years ago, somehow managed to change my life forever........

I know some of my ActiveRain friends have wondered where I've been; some even reached out to me to see if everything was ok.  Two weeks ago my life was changed forever...........
I can still remember that day in August of 2008 when my parents came to my house and told me my mother was diagnosed with "ALS" (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.   Sure I heard of Lou Gehrig, who hasn't?  I even heard of the term "Lou Gehrig's Disease" but naive as it may sound, those three letters that I had never heard before and that had absolutely no meaning to me somehow managed to change my life forever. 
As spoken by Matt White Pregame Speech to the Butler Basketball Team (through his wife Shartrina):
ALS is a fatal degenerative neuromuscular disease that affects the synapse between the voluntary muscles and the nerves that control them. Eventually, all of the body's voluntary muscles atrophy and fail. Ultimately, each person with ALS dies when their diaphragm stops working and they stop breathing. When diagnosed, ALS patients are told the same thing Lou Gehrig was told more than 60 years ago - ALS has no known cause, no treatment ... more

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