Posts by: Rick Jobus

Rick Jobus

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019

The Boomerang Effect of Raising Awareness

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

A 1992 episode of the hit television series “Seinfeld” is a “life-imitating-art” story titled “The Pitch.” The character of George Costanza (with brief help from Jerry Seinfeld) attempts to ... Read more

May 29, 2019May 24, 2019

Join Me in Advancing ALS Awareness Beyond May

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

The sun is setting on another ALS Awareness Month. If we’ve been successful at drawing attention to the disease, we’ve reminded those who are untouched by its tortuous path ... Read more

May 22, 2019May 20, 2019

How You Can Get Medicare to Cover Home Healthcare

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

“What one man can do, another can do.” So said actor Anthony Hopkins, playing the role of Charles Morse in the movie “The Edge.” He used that mantra as ... Read more

May 15, 2019May 14, 2019

Revisiting Medicare’s Coverage of Home Healthcare

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

About a year ago, I wrote about how ALS patients may receive home healthcare on an uninterrupted basis, with expenses covered by Medicare. Since then, there has been both ... Read more

May 1, 2019April 29, 2019

A Look at the ABCs of ALS During ALS Awareness Month

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

Awareness Breeds Compassion. Compassion Drives Enhanced Funding. Funding Generates Heightened Innovative Intervention Ideas. It all starts with awareness. May is ALS Awareness Month. It is not a coincidence that ... Read more

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019

Breaking Even with ALS

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

A zero-sum game is a situation in which the accumulation of gain is accompanied by a sum of loss of equal value. The net result is always zero. From the ... Read more

April 17, 2019June 3, 2019

Murphy’s Law and ALS: Plan for Things to Go Wrong and Pray that They Don’t

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

“If anything can go wrong, it will.” — Murphy’s Law That adage could be the ALS anthem. From the onset of mysterious symptoms to the serpentine-like diagnostic process and ... Read more

April 3, 2019June 3, 2019

Perhaps the ‘Dark Ages’ Can Enlighten Us to Think ‘Why Not?’

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

*** Instant Karma’s gonna get you, Gonna knock you right on the head, You better get yourself together, Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead. — John Lennon *** One ... Read more

March 27, 2019March 25, 2019

How a Friend’s Strength Taught Me to Cope With ALS

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

“It’s hard to make predictions … especially about the future.” –Yogi Berra Gamblers and non-gaming speculators fervently seek out “sure things.” In the absence of that, both groups attempt to ... Read more

March 20, 2019March 18, 2019

The Mind’s Ability Knows No Bounds

Columns, Notes From the ALS Front - a Column by Rick Jobus

“I think, therefore I am.” I have long been fascinated by that argument of philosopher Rene Descartes. Similarly, over a millennium earlier, St. Augustine wrote, “I make mistakes, therefore I am.” ... Read more

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