I would have gone with IRONIC, as he was not diagnosed with ALS until long after he had dedicated his career to researching it.

IT'S LIKE RAY-EE-AIIIIIIIIN

That farkin sucks. what a brutal affliction.

Still no cure for the ALCS

in before Family guy

namegoeshere: I would have gone with IRONIC, as he was not diagnosed with ALS until long after he had dedicated his career to researching it.

Hey, these symtoms seem kind of familiar...

At least he had incentive to finish his work.

Actually, this could've been the most literal use of the "FAIL" tag since its inception.

In before Joey of Friends.

Clearly he was NOT the luckiest man on the face of the earth...

I'd worked with him in the past and he was a very caring man.

Should have seen that coming.

That's some good work, Lou.

Yeah, it's pretty brutal, but the symptoms of Cal Ripken's Disease last just a little longer.

Still no cure for Parkinson's

markie_farkie: I've always wondered...

What are the odds of catching YOUR OWN disease, and dying from it?

Christopher and Murmur can't figure it out, either.

Lou Gehrig's Disease? You mean AIDS?

Nevermind, that's Greg Louganis Disease.

The cure for the ALCS and the AL in general is to get rid of the DH.

My grandfather died of this.

He fought kamikazes then went to work in the oil fields of west texas and raised a happy healthy family, never hurt his kids, never left his wife and for it all he got to slowly waste away and die helpless on his back.

sucks.

Isn't it ironic? Don't ya think?

chasd00: ...he got to slowly waste away and die helpless on his back.

sucks.

Yeah. That's pretty much how death works. Enjoy your health while you have it.

Stephen Hawking has this disease.

It's a good thing he doesn't live somewhere with socialized medicine; he'd never have been able to get treatment.

/yes, people believe that

frontbutt: chasd00: ...he got to slowly waste away and die helpless on his back.

sucks.

Yeah. That's pretty much how death works. Enjoy your health while you have it.

There are better ways to go than others though, and ALS is probably one of the shiattiest ways to go, your mind is still sharp as your body ceases to work over time.

Dr. Richard Olney 0 Lou Gehrig's disease 1.

namegoeshere: I would have gone with IRONIC, as he was not diagnosed with ALS until long after he had dedicated his career to researching it.

Not ironic.

Better than your favorite guitar player.



In 1988. Now, not so much :-(

Is there gonna bonitis soon? Cuz I'm still waiting for that guy to show...
/fry...

So it's contagious? EVERYBODY PANIC

uh... ?

Good thing T.J. is still in cyro.

Ironically medical science has figured out Lou Gehrig didn't die from Lou Gehrig's disease.

/There was a FARK thread about a few months ago.

Huh, today is my personal "Lou Day". Six years ago this very day a doctor looked me in the eye and told me the news. "You have ALS". Statistcally I would shuffle off this mortal coil in about 5 years. Talk about your whoa moment. Thirty seven years old, budding tri-athlete and newly married.

Thankfully, after about a year and a half of thinking I was dirt nap-bound the degradation of my motor skills leveled off and I've been where I'm at now ever since. Using a manual wheelchair, but otherwise living a normal life.

Yay, me.

sidenote: fark Dr. Stephen Hawking in his crooked face. Nothing against him personally, but when a newly diagnossed ALS patient takes to the internet to learn more about this effed up disease it seems every single farking article mentions the 4-6 year diagnosis-to-death statistic, but oh, Dr. Hawking has lived over 20 years with the disease. Your results may vary.

mdeesnuts: So it's contagious? EVERYBODY PANIC

only if you inhale kilos of MSG everyday and spray yourself with organophosphate and organochlorine pesticides daily, for fun.

moops: Still no cure for Parkinson's

caffeine. diphenhydramine.

utah dude: moops: Still no cure for Parkinson's

also, avoid hexane.

Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.

This thread was over in 2.

namegoeshere: I would have gone with IRONIC, as he was not diagnosed with ALS until long after he had dedicated his career to researching it.

Agreed, subtard fail. Too bad the equally tarded LA Times made you click an inline link to a previous story to get this information.

Headso: frontbutt: chasd00: ...he got to slowly waste away and die helpless on his back.

sucks.

Yeah. That's pretty much how death works. Enjoy your health while you have it.

There are better ways to go than others though, and ALS is probably one of the shiattiest ways to go, your mind is still sharp as your body ceases to work over time.

ALS (aka Lou Gehrig's Disease) has to be one of the worse ways to go.

Huntington's disease, which combines Parkinson's with Alzheimer's is not pleasant either.

One of the real heroes of the world.My first cousin died of als,a nasty way to go.He wrote abook about it "Laugh ,i thought i'd die"
http://www.abilities.ca/people/1994/03/01/laugh_i_thought_i_8217/