Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Muscular Dystrophy encompasses several diseases that weaken the muscular skeletal system and impair movements. It usually appears in boys at a young age. However, there are types that can develop when someone is older. The first I heard of it was when I was Supervisor of the Speech and Hearing Clinic at Elmira College, in Elmira, New York. The director Dr. Dan Kelly had a preschool aged son who has just been diagnosed with the challenging disease.
Over the years the individual with MD becomes progressively weaker until a wheel chair is needed. Muscular dystrophies are characterized by progressive skeletal and muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissues. As a Speech Pathologist I later encountered the disease with patients diagnosed with Lou Gehrig ?s disease and several other MD disease diagnosis. As a Speech Pathologist we work with swallowing and choking disorders called dysphagia.
I have worked with a great variety of these disease and it is devastating to see the suffering. Please do your best to
donate through me for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. You may receive a phone call or e-mail from me so please open your heart and let some sunshine in and add a little help and brighten the life of someone with Muscular Dystrophy or one of the other related diseases.
We are always better off than we realize.
Carolyn Finch
