Major Dad hanging it up
I knew this day would come, I just didn't think it would be this soon. I was diagnosed with ALS in February 2016, and the average life span of a person with Lou Gehrig's disease is 2 to 5 years but I ...
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Major Dad wrote:
Thanks for all the kind words and prayers. My family has a great support system at our church, and the VA is providing adequate funding. I wish researchers would find what causes ALS, and why military veterans get ALS at twice the ratio as the general population.
As for transportation, the VA has provided a custom fitted manual wheelchairs and funding for a wheelchair van, which we used to buy an MV-1. So we are set up at least after the VA funded home modifications.
So I will be hanging out at rv.net, and at my beloved Texas state parks. So if you see an old veteran tooling around in a fancy Permobil power wheelchair
at a hill country state park, come on over and meet ol' Maor Dad!
From one Vet to another, Thanks Brother...In the immortal words of Sam Kennison," Party while you can, and rock till you drop!"
