It Helps to Have a Friend Who Understands Your Neuromuscular Disease

For the first six months following her amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis, Valerie Geerer’s instinct was to keep the news to herself. “My husband and close family and friends knew, but I didn’t feel comfortable sharing it with co-workers or acquaintances,” she says.  Then she met Dora Sementilli. Like Valerie, Dora was in her 50s . . .

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