09-06-2017 00:06 via ottawacitizen.com

Egan: Why Carol walks and talks on ALS — 'I kind of feel like I've been given a gift'

Carol Skinner was diagnosed with ALS on Sept. 19, 2013, a day she’ll never forget.
I first met her in June 2015, when she had leg braces, caught up with her a year later when she used a walker, and saw her again Wednesday, when she explained the use of three different wheelchairs, lamented an inability to hold a plate or drive a car, revealed she can’t bend over to pick anything up.
So does amyotrophic lateral sclerosis steadily shrink your world. And she is one of the lucky one
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