For the past 40 years, Dale Hodgins has been saving lives as a paramedic and volunteer firefighter in Kingston, Ontario. In December 2018, he was diagnosed with ALS – a disease he was already familiar with through his work. As far back as the 80s and 90s, Dale remembers driving people living with ALS home […]
Offsetting the loneliness and isolation of an ALS diagnosis with love and support
Published in Events, Walk To End ALS on May 23, 2019
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Positive and pragmatic – an approach for one family facing the realities of ALS
Published in Events, Walk To End ALS on May 15, 2019
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According to Kevin, there’s one word that sums up ALS: a thief. “ALS is a thief – and a remorseless one at that,” he explains in writing. Now that he can no longer speak, he uses eye gaze technology to type messages with his eyes – his only method of communicating. “The sooner we can arrest […]