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  • There was Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.†  (source)
  • In 2003, I was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.†  (source)
    Lou Gehrig's disease = ALS -- a neurological illness that results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs and results in death (named after a famous baseball player who had it)
  • 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)
    ALS = a neurological disorder that results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs and results in death
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  • Deze moorden kwamen als en schok voor — what?†  (source)
    als = a neurological disorder that results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs and results in death
  • 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)
    amyotrophic lateral sclerosis = ALS -- a neurological disorder that results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs and results in death
  • 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)
    Lou Gehrig's disease = ALS -- a neurological illness that results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs and results in death (named after a famous baseball player who had it)
  • 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)
    ALS = a neurological disorder that results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs and results in death
  • He was diagnosed with ALS and also myasthenia gravis, two diseases that affect motor nerves.†  (source)
  • Would anyone tolerate an outdoor dumping ground for victims of cancer, ALS and Parkinson's?†  (source)
  • I would be constantly confronted with and at the mercy of the Als.†  (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)
  • The grimness of the media announcing stuff like: "Hope is fading for the missing Navy SE ALs...seems like those early reports of the death of all four will be proved accurate...Texas family mourns their loss...Navy still refusing to confirm SEALs deaths..."†  (source)
  • Ach, unsre Taten selbst so gut als unsre Leiden, Sie hemmen unsres Lebens Gang.†  (source)
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