Tim Guth

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Tim has an agressive form of ALS.

From a message:

A bit of history on Tim and his condition. Approximately 2 1/2 years ago, Tim began to slur his speech and his personality began to dull a bit. We (his family) and his primary doctor attributed this to stress/anxiety and suggested he take time from work and rest for a month or two. Subsequently, he awoke one morning and could not speak at all. His fiancé took him to Emergency and they initially felt he had a stroke. Tim did not have a stroke and months of tests and doctors and neurologists finally determined (through ruling out many neurological conditions) that Tim had ALS and Front Temporal Dementia. FTD affects all your executive reasoning skills - speech, cognitive ability, judgement and decision making. ALS is a fatal muscle deterioration disease. Tim got a double whammy.

In the last year or so - Tim closed his law practice, lost his fiancé, rescued a dog, got his affairs in order and taken some memorable trips with his family.

Today, he is losing his battle. His hands have lost most strength, terribly thin, unable to speak or type, and has lost most of reading capability. He is struggling terribly to swallow, breathing will be next. And so it progresses.

Tim has moved to his childhood home and is being cared for by his family and support from the VA. Fifty percent (yes 50%) of all diagnosed ALS patients are military veterans. There is some belief that these veterans were exposed to a chemical(s) that causes this disease.

They have set up a Go Fund Me site https://www.gofundme.com/f/tim-guth-...lVw_AEliMFvfGE