April 2009

April 29, 2009
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Caffeine Appears To Be Beneficial In Males, But Not Females, With Lou Gehrig’s Disease

I was avoiding to publish this news for a while on a while, but it just kept popping up on different news sites and blogs. So here it is: researchers found that caffeine helps males* with ALS. *The males in this case are mice! My doctor told me that what’s true for lab mice is [...]

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April 25, 2009
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Status Update

Here are some of the thing that have changed in April: 1. I am no longer able to with the help of cane, because it was getting hard to maintain balance while walking. So got a walker to help me get around. 2. Went to meet my neurologist last week for quarterly appointment. He asked [...]

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April 25, 2009
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Transportation

With wheelchair finalized, I started looking for transportation. Buying a van to help me with transportation is not an option because they cost a lot. So I applied for Madison Metro’s paratransit service. Well they approved me for it, but guess what, I am outside of their service area. Well that was disappointing, and they [...]

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April 11, 2009
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Depression

Yesterday folks from Community Living Alliance visited me for an evaluation. These folks help people like me with various things of daily living. One of the question they asked me is if I was depressed. Well first of all I don’t know what depression is or how it feels like. In any case I told [...]

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April 11, 2009
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Power Wheelchair

Yesterday power wheelchair sales folks came to my place. The purpose of the visit was for me to test drive one! and see if my home has wide enough doorways and hallways to maneuver it. Both tests were a success. Having played so many video games, it was piece of cake to drive it with [...]

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