Senators assistant coach Bob Jones diagnosed with ALS (upd: passes away at 54)

[Gjman2019]

Horrible news...My thoughts go out to his family...

I know someone that just got diagnosed with that disease.......Stuff like that is really disappointing.

 

[66-30-33]

RIP.

 

[Realgud]

Rest in peace

 

[Jumptheshark]

sad

 

[centipede2233]

Life just doesn’t seem fair sometimes.

 

[BraveCanadian]

Sad news.

I hope we'll come up with solutions to some of these diseases that take people away much too young.

RIP

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Horrendous disease . RIP Bob.


Somewhat related, the great guitar player Jason Becker just turned 55 , he’s been living with ALS since around 1991.

He’s been totally paralyzed for most of this time but is otherwise in decent health.


I wonder how rare that is? It seems most people only last a couple years.


Either way I hope medical science can make some progress on this and other horrible brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s soon