May is ALS Awareness Month, and in honor of the campaign, ABC 7 New York profiles one well-known New Yorker who’s finding a way to make a difference while battling the disease.
ALS stands for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and is a progressive neuro-degenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. A person’s brain loses connection with the muscles, slowly taking away their ability to walk, talk, eat and eventually breathe.
The hard reality is that there is currently no cure for ALS yet, but there is hope…