DrALSWarriorQueen 

Welcome to DrALSWarriorQueen—where medicine, music, advocacy, and lived experience meet. I am a Dr. of podiatric physician and foot and ankle surgeon whose life was transformed by ALS. After over 20 years of caring for patients, teaching, and performing surgery, I now live with advanced ALS, use a power wheelchair, and communicate through eye-tracking technology—yet I continue to create, think, and contribute in new ways. When ALS took my hands and natural voice, I found new instruments. Through DrALSWarriorQueen, I share original music and sto about ALS, love, caregiving, loss, resilience, disability, dignity, grief, hope, and identity through change. Some songs will make you cry, some will make you laugh, and all reflect that beauty and purpose still exist in life’s hardest moments. This is also a space for advocacy. Never mistake a silent body for an absent person. ALS has changed how I move through the world. It has not changed who I am. My hands have changed. My purpose has not.