She Got What?
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Olga Alexandravna Ahangarzadeh (Scherbina), has been stricken with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis--also known as ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, or Motor Neuron Disease. There's no cure. The average life span post-first symptoms is two to five years.
It's a devastating disease because not only does it slowly deteriorate all of your muscles until you can't talk, walk, move, swallow, cough, sneeze, or breathe, it presents itself differently in everyone with only a few patterns that are barely discernible so those who have it are constantly terrified of how it will strike next.
This episode explains how we found out about this horrible disease and what we're planning to do about it.
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