Sharing fears with other ALS caregivers can help us feel less alone

Sharing fears with other ALS caregivers can help us feel less alone

The weeks immediately following my late husband’s ALS diagnosis were the scariest and most unsettling of my life. Even with Jeff’s physical symptoms pointing toward ALS, nothing could’ve prepared us to actually hear those words when they were delivered in a windowless examination room in Baltimore, in November 2018. In many respects, those initial days of shock and despair were more difficult than any that followed. Jeff and I each retreated in …