When I first came to this forum I was listening to stories of people who had cared for their pals for years. I read, I studied and cared and cooked for my husband. They couldn’t put in a feeder tube because his oxygen was messed up, they said they could put him under but couldn’t bring him back.  I used ensure for the bases of many smoothies… Read more

Hi Giselle

my husband started sounding like a teen male when their voice changes. Our sons teased him about going through puberty again, then it slurred. No it’s getting pretty bad. Some people can’t understand him and it’s mostly people that are hard of hearing so it must be his tones.
They put him on a bipap machine and he’s not… Read more

My husband sleeps in his lazy boy chair because when he lays down he says his breath gets shallow. Two days ago they did a sleep study. We don’t have the results yet. My husband started in January with shortness of breath and voice slurring.

My husband really wonders if it came from agent orange or the vaccines that they were given. Rich wasn’t in the jungle he worked on helicopters. Rich can still speak and walk well. Everyday he wakes up as good as the day before is a blessing.

My husband is a 73 yr old Vietnam vet. We have been through skin cancers, prostate cancer and he survived. He was strong, on no medications everything was great. We headed toward Florida for the winter the 1st of November. He started complaining that he was weak. In February he started slurring his words. We went to the hospital thinking it was… Read more