Ashley Fisher

I too enjoyed reading Rick’s column’s/stories.  I will miss reading them.  Thoughts are with his family.

Congratulations!

I made a “she” shed out of my garage!  Which was no easy task as my husband did body work and painting out there, but I managed with the help of family and friends.  My husband sleeps in his recliner in the living room, so I made our bedroom my own!  I spend my “free” time decorating, arranging, re-arranging, and then enjoy the spaces, all in be…[Read more]

Thanks ladies!  Sometimes I just want to throw my arms up and say “I’m done”!  But I could never do that to him.   So it’s good to have more help now.

Just started my husband on Hospice yesterday.  He isn’t close to dying yet, although I don’t know for sure; but we need help and they are there in any way we need.  He refuses any type of life saving options, i.e. feeding tube, oxegyn, etc.  So I get to just watch him die a most unpleasant death.  Fortunately Hospice will be there to make him com…[Read more]

My husband was diagnosed in August of 2019.  He made his 55th birthday and Christmas, but he doesn’t think he’ll make it through the winter.  I think he’ll be around for at least another year, but he keeps getting weaker and weaker.  He refuses to have a feeding tube or breathing machine, and just wants to go naturally.  He doesn’t have a need for…[Read more]

Our Neurologist and also the ALS specialist doctor’s were very empathetic when discussing my husband’s ALS diagnosis.

We recently took out our tub and shower and built a walk in shower, and will have a little removable ramp to go over the lip and push my husband’s commode/shower wheel chair into the shower.  Just need to re-paint the walls and ceiling above the tiling, and then we can use it.  I’m so excited that he finally, after several months, gets to take a s…[Read more]

My husband took the Riluzole for about 2 weeks, and was constantly tired and nauseous, so we decided it wasn’t worth that, to only live an extra couple months, after the disease is in it’s late stages.