CalifChick
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Joined: 10/28/2007 From: California Status: offline
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Lushy darlin', thank you for reaching out to me last night about your mom. And thank you for allowing us both to end the evening in fits of laughter. You're a peach, baby. For anyone who doesn't know, ALS is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. It is a progressive disease that destroys nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord so that instructions from the brain cannot reach the muscles to instruct them to move. The muscles retain the ability to move (although they will atrophy from lack of use), they just cannot "hear" the instructions from the brain to do so. There is currently one drug approved by the FDA that slows the progression of the disease. Cali
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AKA "The Undisputed Goddess of Sarcasm", "Big Bad Cali" and "Yum Bum". Advisor to the Subbie Mafia, founding member of the W.A.C. and the Judgmental Bitches Brigade, member of the Clan of the Scarlet O'Hair-a's and Team Troll
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