I didn't have a regular family doctor, so last January I saw a doctor at a walk-in clinic. I wondered if I had had a stroke or a brain tumor that was causing this change to one side of my body. It seemed that my whole right side was becoming weaker, despite the fact that I'm right-handed and my right side had always been my stronger side. At the gym, I would test the strength of my right arm versus my left arm and my right leg versus my left leg. Then I started noticing that my legs were becoming weaker. I thought maybe I was dehydrated or had a vitamin deficiency. I would get cramps in my abdomen or in my calf muscles, or my arm or fingers would occasionally twitch. I was also getting a lot of muscle cramps and fasciculations (muscle twitches). For example, when I had difficulties using a can opener, rather than thinking my fingers were getting weak, I blamed it on the can opener! I discounted the weakness even as I thought it was problematic. I had some weakness in my right shoulder, arm, and hands. My first noticeable symptoms of ALS came around September, 2012. I hope people can learn a bit about this mysterious and life-changing condition. People may associate ALS with Lou Gehrig or the famous physicist Stephen Hawking, but mostly it affects ordinary people who, because of the debilitating nature of the disease, are often not seen or heard by the public. I am also making family, friends, coworkers, and anyone else I come across, aware of my ALS diagnosis. On October 20, 2013, I will be participating in a 5K walk to raise money for the ALS Society of Canada. I may be weakened, but I can still do things and contribute to this world. While I don't consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth, I am still lucky to be alive. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth." In his famous 1939 speech, given before 62,000 fans at Yankee Stadium and only two weeks after he had been diagnosed with ALS, Gehrig said, "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. ALS is a dreadfully debilitating disease, made famous by the Hall of Fame baseball player Lou Gehrig, who died of ALS in 1941.
You can follow Mark on Twitter July 15, 2013, a few days after my 46 th birthday, I was diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). We’re Mark Blake®.You can contribute to Mark's Walking For ALS campaign here. That’s why we pledge to go above and beyond to offer you the finest in haircare service, with expert advice, luxurious salons and the very best in products and treatments. We also know that getting your hair done is more than a cut or colour it’s an experience. Some shorter haircuts can often require more time, skill and precision than longer haircuts. It’s common in our salons to have women with short crops and men with longer hair. Not only do we believe that this is a fairer and more inclusive way of doing things, we also feel its necessary because of how hair trends are changing.
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