Teenager Diagnosed with ALS

[parrotforlifr50]

rest in peace

[NaturReise]

sad

[kenkameda]

If you are still alive, please keep your spirits up and keep fighting! Cure is just around the corner.

[wyliebug8]

that my sister best friend it's sad and right now my sister is fight to help people with it

[Slazors]

Rest in peace </3

[ecfcheer214]

RIP!!! </3

[pantyflash]

Like, even though her body was hosed, her spirit remained strong. Her untimely demise left a huge void, making our world that much more miserable. We so have to find a cure for this gruesomely grim disease. So sad, babes!

[AWDESIGNS8]

DID YOU EVER LOOK IN TO CCSVI FOR HER MY PRAYS ARE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GOD IS WITH YOU MOM TAKING CARE OF HER AND JUST LOVING AND BEING MOM GOD IS WATCHING OVER ALL THAT LIVE IN THAT HOME SHE IS A STRONG GIRL LOVE YA APRIL

[PeopleNeed2LoveMore]

My husband has ALS, ALS is the monster of all diseases, no cure FOR 140 YEARS this monster has lurked silently killing, there are no drugs that would potentially cure or prolong life as there are for cancer & other ailments, the doctors know nothing. My husband is a veteran many veterans have been struck down by ALS, we need to find a cure but more importantly we need to financially help the people who live with this disease, STAY STRONG HALEY, AND I HOPE YOU GOT YOUR HOUSE EXTENTION (HUGS)

[Conflagration2100]

Why You May Already Be Infected!

Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, has recently stated that this insidious disease-causing agent is now carried by just about everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the world.

“Some of the more common contaminants of commercial vaccines are mycoplasmas,” asserts Dr. Garth Nicholson

[Conflagration2100]

Chronic bacterial and viral infections that invade the brain have been found at high incidence in ALS patients, and these may play an important role in nerve cell death. investigations at the Institute for Molecular Medicine have found that 85% of ALS patients (and 100% of Gulf War veterans with ALS) have bacterial infections caused by Mycoplasma species.

High frequency of systemic infections in Gulf War veterans and civilians with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), by G.L. Nicolson et al.

[kendrat199]

Bless this girl. It's amazing how her family is there for her and she just goes through this illness with a smile. My heart goes out to her and her family!

[DalueCommentarys]

brave brave girl.

[The391956]

Taking your life is not being cowardly, it is just ending your pain from a awful illness like A.L.S. or some very painfull illness or quadraplegia. The nursing home is so awful it is better to go for Euthanasia. Euthanasia is being most kind to family by letting them off taking care of you which Crarg Ewert did to spare his wife to care for him with ALS. Most Euthanasia cases is to avoid a nursing home which are worse then death, they smell horible of urine and abuse is rampant

[katie1741]

and i will always support her group in the walks for als. i will always try my best to make to as many walks as i possibly can. just to show how much of an inspiration she was to me. lorraines alliance will be iin my heart forever. RIP aunt lorraine you will be forever missed nd loved. March 20, 2010.

[katie1741]

my aunt died from als this past yearr. she had it for a little less than 2 years. when she died a piece of me definitely went with her. i loved her soo much. and i miss her dearly. im crying as i write this. i know her going was a good thing cuz it ended her suffering, and she is with her best friend too who jus happened to be my grandma. i jus wish that someething this terrible never happened to her, she was such an amazing person and did not deserve this.

[gaskin97]

GOD BLESS

[kidel3]

My uncle died from ALS in the beginning of the summer for about 2 years ago. To say it easy, the word makes me feel bad ='(

[ultimatetoturial56]

i have ALS on my left hand

[twistt]

Is she still doing alright?

God bless you Haley <3

[caldispatcher]

@twistt Sad to say, I checked on the internet. There is a message dated 9/17/09 that she had passed. RIP, Haley!

[DevonNalta]

im praying for her

[HylianFury]

god bless her and this comes from a atheist no one deserves something like this !

i'm gonna cry watching this :'(

[tung2sai]

I feel for her. Had some personal encounters with neuro diseases. God be with her, always.

All I can say is I hope medical research speeds up their work.

[RAINBOWLIZY333]

I feel for you and for your 16-year-old daughter Haley. This shouldn't be happening. There is something wrong!...And still no one, can pin point the real cause of this beast lurking in families. It never ceases to amaze me, how we can live in the most richest country in the world, and spend more money on building machines to outer space, but not in researching for humans to find a cure to such agonizing diseases as ALS, Cancer and other terminal ones!!! That is sick.

May God bless us all...

[2009iakona]

Keep your spirits up, im sorry about your daughter i take care of a woman with ALS i know its hard...

[RealtorLiz]

Rest In Peace Haley. :(

[ClamCrunchy]

Why do people keep saying God this, God that?

If there was a God, people wouldn't get ALS. There is no God.

[pitt234567]

@ClamCrunchy yeah there is. Christians believe that although she suffered here, she will experience the ultimate reward after she dies. That's why people keep referring to God in these comments.

[Salalala100]

thats horrible... someone gotta find a cure...

[cartercool90]

this proves that people with severe disabilities arent always broken

[maciejwrotek]

was tested for lyme disease ?

[mbspeech]

check out the youtube "often awesome series" about a couple living with ALS. It is heartwarming

[777eliane]

My father has ALS, it's really hard time for the whole family.I'm praying for all.Only God can give us hope.

[MultiMeli123]

I wonder if she had the Gardasil shot?? It 's been a side effect of that vaccination!

[ScorchinBeats]

i have like every single symptom of ALS but sort-of mild. o.o

I doubt I have it, but it's kind of scary lol.

[JassminTea]

@ScorchinBeats you should get it checked out, just in case.

[MeriTimeKat]

I miss you Haley! You still are my best friend, and I am so sorry that I cant see you again. I am so glad that you were able to graduate with our class, and got Prom Queen. U were a true inspiration to us all, and I thank you for being such a great friend and never giving up. You will forever be missed, and I pray that you are up in Heaven playing your favorite Kiltie candences and dancing away with the angels. We will be together again, you will forever be my best friend! RIP

[birds16ful]

When did Haley pass away? I am so sorry for your lost of your best friend/classmate Haley.

[NewbornHippo]

my grandpa had ALS.

[Kingofmean]

I would take a lethal cocktail of xanax ,pain meds and kill my fucking self before i let a disease this brutal take me out.

[1barbaraaa]

I am so sorry. My mom is nearing the end. Such a horrid disease.  She is now free in heaven. Dancing perhaps. My heart really goes with you.

[zandhdad]

I want to let everyone know that Haley passed away on September 3rd. She put up a tremendous fight, and never let ALS get the best of her. As far as her mother and I are concerned, she's doing much better now.

[GregGirardin]

So sorry to hear that.

I went through a scare this summer where I thought I had ALS, fortunately I have something called BFS which is not serious. I wish you had gotten a similar outcome. While researching the disease I ran into your tragic story.

you have my sympathies.

[TheCentralThing]

I wish people with ALS would get on long term antibiotics. So many cases of chronic Lyme disease are misdiagnosed at ALS.

Yes, Lyme disease can and does kill... just like ALS. I'm not saying this is definately the case with this young girl... but at her age it's a definite possiblility.

[krusfire]

yes i understand what u are going thru....my dad has ALS and right now as we speak he is in the hospital because they will have in breathing tubes and feeding tubes....it hurts to see him that way...but i dont that in front of him cause that makes him worry i smile on front of him...like i always before he got hit with this disease......

[SaithTheLordMinistry]

God bless your Dad, my Mom suffered from pancreatic cancer.

[sumnertara]

i hope u get better my dad is dying with als

[iluvJosh44]

Strike out ALS my friends mom has it and im trying to help raise money for it

[jenda6]

strike out als strike out als strike out als (if u dont get it....im saying this because a baseball player named lou gherig got it so if u dont get it now u are weird)

[katrinski]

that is so unfortunate

[peugteobike]

I hope she gets to feeling better.I had a friend that died of this diease.but it worked from his feet,then on up.later on he could'nt eat and slowly passed away

[OBZ]

We have phones that can send a call or a text message to the other side of the world in half of a second. We have the ability to send people to the moon, without harm.

However, we do not have a cure for ALS. Something does not make any sense.

[jeff223344]

@OBZ so true. What we need is essentially the equivalent of insulin for diabetics.

[lodberg1]

@OBZ i guess curing ALS is far more difficult than flying to the moon. It is two completely different things

[OBZ]

@lodberg1 I agree, I just think that we could spend more money on researching cures for ALS than building rockets that fly to the moon.

[lodberg1]

@OBZ yeah but who knows? maybe there wont be found a cure for ALS or at least not in time to cure these people who have gotten it.

But i agree it is a terrible disease and i would most likely see a cure found for it as fast as possible

[OBZ]

@lodberg1 Agreed

[ocpud2999]

@OBZ It is all about focus. We focused for many years on those technologies. They did not happen over night. Sadly ALS was not researched aggressively until recently. I think the focus should be the cure but first find a way to slow the disease down. ALS Therapy Development Institute MDA has a als division as well.

They say they are making much progress. If they can find a cure to this. It may lead to cures of other muscular diseases.

[Kalevala87]

@OBZ You're forgetting the fact that groups and lobbies the world over are hellbent on preventing scientific research on purely ideological grounds. I agree, it doesn't make sense, but it's hardly surprising.

[DeconstructingGlenn]

@OBZ I know. It seems that way. But the body is so much more complicated than anything that humans have ever produced. There are millions of chemical reactions with immensely complicated inter-dependencies.

[boredperson8x]

@OBZ Thats what ive been thinking! Finally someones who realizez the lazierness of the world sometimes

[Flam3o]

@boredperson8x - It's not laziness.

The human body is incredibly complicated, far more complicated than anything we've ever made. Of course we (we being humans as a whole) aren't going to be able to cure everything known to man at least anytime soon. You also have to remember that when there's theories on how to cure a disease you will always have (mostly religious) groups which seem to try their hardest to prevent lives being saved for their own idiotic moral high ground.

[medicalterrylove2]

@Flam3o kissing the governments ass!!!! YOU ARE SAD!!!! wake up and smell the coffee 

[Flam3o]

@medicalterrylove2 - Go kill yourself to speed up the process.

Cleanse the gene pool.

[medicalterrylove2]

@Flam3o oooo i struck a nerve, can't handle the truth??? (:

[Flam3o]

@medicalterrylove2 Truth != Anger

[stephanoz]

this hits home,,, lost my mom august 24 2002 from als,, i feel for everyone who has to live with als and their family....

[babymeadow]

i hope they find a cure or something to prolong life anyways, my dad was 45 and he only had it a year then passed away dec 25th 2002. hit him like a mack truck.

[EddieGurreo900]

soo sadd stay in their babe

[Rasissten]

It is critical that people avoid MSG and Aspartame, and anything else which damages the nervous system.

We are becoming a less and less healthy people because we are losing touch with reality and common sense.

[pamelacameltoe]

my dad died of als when he was 45 on dec 28 2005

[EddieGurreo900]

sorry

[jamess0456]

I'm sorry.

[Samhobbit]

Haley's alway in our thoughts. She's such a good friend to all of us. Thank you OneGirlArmy, I'll try to let them know this.

[1992peter]

This video is heartwrenching!

They are in my prayers, (""ALWAYS"").

[OneGirlArmy]

This girls family should look into Lyme Disease. It is often an imitator of ALS. It is entirely possible that she has ALS, but It is really important that this is looked into. The only lab I would trust to do the test is called IgeneX. I hope the best for her and her family.

[zandhdad]

Lyme was one of the first things that was looked into. It was around 9 months before a diagnosis was settled on, because everything else was checked first. There is no test for ALS. Everything else had to be ruled out first.

[CATZscamp]

Unbelievable....Haley and her family will be in my prayers daily...