10 years ago, l lost a good friend to ALS. He fought the good fight for close to four years and was in his early 40s when he passed. In the end, he got a cold and because of the muscle atrophy, he couldn't fight it and it turned into pneumonia.
At that point he had a feeding tube, he had not drunk water by way of his mouth for a cou…
10 years ago, l lost a good friend to ALS. He fought the good fight for close to four years and was in his early 40s when he passed. In the end, he got a cold and because of the muscle atrophy, he couldn't fight it and it turned into pneumonia.
At that point he had a feeding tube, he had not drunk water by way of his mouth for a couple of years (water was thin and it made him choke). They wanted to put an air tube and at that point he was done and refused it. While pneumonia was the technical cause of death, ALS is what killed him because without it, it would just have been another cold he would have shrugged off in a couple of days. No one - NO ONE - says he died of pneumonia. I have to wonder though had he lived to see our present shitshow how they would have classified him. Because I know there would be a contingent of people wringing their hands about CV. Uh, no. It still would have been ALS that killed him and if you think otherwise, then you are lying to yourself.
10 years ago, l lost a good friend to ALS. He fought the good fight for close to four years and was in his early 40s when he passed. In the end, he got a cold and because of the muscle atrophy, he couldn't fight it and it turned into pneumonia.
At that point he had a feeding tube, he had not drunk water by way of his mouth for a couple of years (water was thin and it made him choke). They wanted to put an air tube and at that point he was done and refused it. While pneumonia was the technical cause of death, ALS is what killed him because without it, it would just have been another cold he would have shrugged off in a couple of days. No one - NO ONE - says he died of pneumonia. I have to wonder though had he lived to see our present shitshow how they would have classified him. Because I know there would be a contingent of people wringing their hands about CV. Uh, no. It still would have been ALS that killed him and if you think otherwise, then you are lying to yourself.
Perhaps they would say "he died with covid" and not from Covid? 🤔
What caused the als?