After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running.
ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.
I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
As the spinal cord increases, it makes you taller. However, after landing on the Earth, you shrink a bit. What was worrisome was that some of the wrinkles, which had disappeared there, came back.
In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
Not playing guitar has been the hardest thing about having ALS.
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
I had to teach myself how to walk again. It was crazy. I couldn't even make a muscle in my leg. I felt like no muscles in my leg. I was already skinny. It was like my leg was dead.
