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ALS
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  • A colleague read a note from a woman named Nancy, who had lost her mother to ALS.†  (source)
  • His look of shock had to be genuine...unless Als were consummate actors.†  (source)
  • Instead, I got stuck searching his usernames and variants of them, and ended up meeting a lot of people who weren't my Davis Pickett—the fifty-three-year-old Dave Pickett who was a truck driver in Wisconsin; the Davis Pickett who'd died of ALS after years of posting short blog entries written with the help of eye-tracking software; a Twitter user named dallgoodman whose blog was nothing but vitriolic threats directed at members of Congress.†  (source)
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  • Turns out Stephen Hawking has something called ALS, and he can't walk or talk, and he's probably the smartest man in the world, and everybody knows it!†  (source)
  • There was Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.†  (source)
  • In 2003, I was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.†  (source)
  • I know individu als who seem to draw friends, who have a unique ability to make people feel welcome and part of the family.†  (source)
  • Finally, on a hot, humid day in August 1994, Morrie and his wife, Charlotte, went to the neurologist's office, and he asked them to sit before he broke the news: Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system.†  (source)
  • Finally, on a hot, humid day in August 1994, Morrie and his wife, Charlotte, went to the neurologist's office, and he asked them to sit before he broke the news: Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system.†  (source)
  • Would anyone tolerate an outdoor dumping ground for victims of cancer, ALS and Parkinson's?†  (source)
  • Inner Strength from Desperate Times JAKE HOVENDEN ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE KNOW THIS about me, but five years ago my father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.†  (source)
  • He was diagnosed with ALS and also myasthenia gravis, two diseases that affect motor nerves.†  (source)
  • Ach, unsre Taten selbst so gut als unsre Leiden, Sie hemmen unsres Lebens Gang.†  (source)
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