Guest Voice: Finding that place where ‘all manner of thing shall be well’
WHY IT MATTERS
This personal account highlights the diagnostic challenges ALS patients face—Mary Ann was initially misdiagnosed with Parkinson's disease—which is important for newly symptomatic patients to understand they may need multiple evaluations before getting an accurate diagnosis.
A caregiver shares his personal story about losing his wife Mary Ann to ALS (a disease that affects nerve cells controlling muscles) after 34 years of marriage. The article describes their medical journey, which began with neurologic symptoms in 2011 and initially included a misdiagnosis of Parkinson's disease before she was correctly diagnosed with ALS.
I lost Mary Ann, my wife of 34 years, to ALS more than seven years ago. The last eight of those years with her were a medical odyssey. After developing neurologic symptoms in 2011, Mary Ann was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in February 2012. When other distinct symptoms appeared, and after weeks of examinations and […] The post Guest Voice: Finding that place where ‘all manner of thing shall be well’ appeared first on ALS News Today .