by Elise Bernard | May 22, 2018 | Advocacy
More than 570 ALS advocates from across the country joined together for the 2018 National ALS Advocacy Conference in Washington, D.C., on May 13-15. Nearly every state in the country was represented, with 22 advocates hailing from Texas. Stacey Crowder was one of the...
by Tanner Hockensmith | Dec 26, 2017 | News
Texas is big, really big. Our friends at Texas Humor stated that “if you drive long enough through Texas, you still might not get all the way through it.” As Texans, we pride ourselves on the sheer size of our great state. However, its sprawling cities, growing...
by wpengine | Dec 6, 2017 | Stories
By John Quinn Like many people with ALS, I first noticed symptoms several months before I was diagnosed. In December 2015, I was dropping my right foot when I walked and began fatiguing more easily than normal. I went to multiple doctors and finally saw a neurologist...
by Elise Bernard | Nov 9, 2017 | Advocacy, Stories
We had the privilege of awarding the first Harrison Brown Volunteer of the Year award to Whitney Sadler at the 2017 Austin Walk to Defeat ALS. The award honors the late Harrison Brown who lost his life in the stabbing at the University of Texas in May 2017. ALS Texas...
by Elise Bernard | May 18, 2016 | Advocacy
Juan Reyes and his wife Meg attended the ALS Association Advocacy Conference in Washington, D.C. this May. My name is Juan Reyes, and I live with ALS. I was diagnosed in October 2015, but in hindsight, I started showing symptoms in late 2013. What began as slight...
