A Life Switch Her mother and grandmother both got diagnosed and sadly passed away due to the sickness of ALS disease. And at 18 years old the symptoms started slowly beginning. This was the life of Sabrina Parker. She was in young love with a boy named Matt, and they were best friends. Sabrina didn’t want to tell anyone about her symptoms, because she knew they were bad. After a couple months her symptoms got worse and she had to be helped. Every day and night she faced hardships and Matt wouldn’t give up on her. She battled for months until it finally took over her body and she passed away (“Lou Gehrig’s Disease”107-109). This happens to 30,000 people in the U.S. per year (“Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis” Human Diseases and Conditions 79).
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1). Jean Charcot is a rather significant name when it comes to ALS. In the mid 1800’s Jean was the first to describe it and physically see it, under a microscope of course. He was also the genius that came up with the name amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (“ALS Association” What is ALS? 2). Which comes to the point of what does it really mean. In a A.L.S.A. chart breaking down the word amyotrophic is found easy. A means no, myo means muscle, and trophic means nourishment. So amyotrophic means no muscle nourishment (“ALS Association” What is ALS? 2). In the US about every one or two people are diagnosed are out of every 100,000. It can impact age wise anywhere from 40 to 70. And it has happened to some of america 's greats. There’s people like one of baseball greats Lou Gehrig all the way to Jon Stone who was the creator of “Sesame Street” (“ALS Association” What is ALS? …show more content…
A persistent recurrent spasm in the arm or leg can conclude that you have been diagnosed with ALS (“Signs and Symptoms”1). Another sign of ALS brewing up in your body is stuff like muscle twitches, behavior changes, and being emotional to mostly everything. If one should feel these happening, contact a neurologist. There has to be a cause to all these things going on in the body right? The answer is mostly no. ALS brings up a lot of questions when put on this topic. The reason why is because simply none have been found yet except one. Familial ALS is a type that is only hereditary and only a small percent of patients get it (“ALS Association” What is ALS 2). The other and most common type is Sporadic which can happen with anyone anywhere it is pretty much the luck of the
1). Jean Charcot is a rather significant name when it comes to ALS. In the mid 1800’s Jean was the first to describe it and physically see it, under a microscope of course. He was also the genius that came up with the name amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (“ALS Association” What is ALS? 2). Which comes to the point of what does it really mean. In a A.L.S.A. chart breaking down the word amyotrophic is found easy. A means no, myo means muscle, and trophic means nourishment. So amyotrophic means no muscle nourishment (“ALS Association” What is ALS? 2). In the US about every one or two people are diagnosed are out of every 100,000. It can impact age wise anywhere from 40 to 70. And it has happened to some of america 's greats. There’s people like one of baseball greats Lou Gehrig all the way to Jon Stone who was the creator of “Sesame Street” (“ALS Association” What is ALS? …show more content…
A persistent recurrent spasm in the arm or leg can conclude that you have been diagnosed with ALS (“Signs and Symptoms”1). Another sign of ALS brewing up in your body is stuff like muscle twitches, behavior changes, and being emotional to mostly everything. If one should feel these happening, contact a neurologist. There has to be a cause to all these things going on in the body right? The answer is mostly no. ALS brings up a lot of questions when put on this topic. The reason why is because simply none have been found yet except one. Familial ALS is a type that is only hereditary and only a small percent of patients get it (“ALS Association” What is ALS 2). The other and most common type is Sporadic which can happen with anyone anywhere it is pretty much the luck of the