We have to fight in our area, and stay on the VA quite often to get things, but the way we look at it is, this is going to help the next guy, because maybe the next guy doesn’t have the energy to fight or have a wife to do it – it’s a bigger picture at this point.

Lara Garey

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ALS typically hits his age group – early to mid-40s through the 50s – and most guys, especially these military guys, they’re just going to chalk up these symptoms as part of getting older, we’ve been reaching out, at least to those guys, to let them know that this has happened and be alert.

I tell people all the time it’s a death wish, for sure, it takes your breath away. Everything you thought is completely turned on its head – in a moment we went from this family that had a man-child of a son and was hoping he would get out of high school and go to college, and Tom and I would retire and enjoy our lives and just enjoy the future – to being told you have ALS, and it takes that away from you.