Tag Archives: military caregiver

Every day I see this guy give it all he’s got. He is incredibly inspiring. So much so, I embarked on a health and fitness journey two years ago today. I was way past the category of a healthy BMI. In fact, I was considered obese. At the rate I was going I would end […]

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The month of May is ALS Awareness Month. It is also the month  Military Caregiver are recognized. Veterans are twice as likely to get ALS than non-veterans. Tom is a veteran of the Marine Corps. He served from 1972-1975. He was diagnosed with ALS on June 21, 2010. He has a slowly progressive variant of […]

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From the day of diagnosis to May 1, 2018, this is how many days Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, has been in our life. It is a lot of days. It is a long time. It feels like yesterday. It feels like time is on speed. The journey to a definitive diagnosis was a long time […]

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To some ‘on a whim’ translates to ‘let’s do it’ and it happens in the snap of the finger. To us it means, oh maybe, an hour or more to prepare, get the van loaded with everything. Everything is the painting gear – easel, tubes of paint, rags, tools – Tom and the wheelchair, Maddie […]

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