Walter family members who have lost fathers, husbands and uncles.
Top row: Meghan, Jennifer, Michelle (daughters of Phil), Michael (son of Mike), Kristine (daughter of Steve), Laura (daughter of Phil), Jeanine (daughter of Steve), Robert (son of Mike).
Bottom row: Beth (wife of Mike) Terry (wife of Steve) MaryJean (wife of Phil).
As you can see, FTD/ALS is serious business. And we as a family are committed to working tirelessly to find answers and cures someday. Each of these brothers participated in ground breaking research at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland and at the University of California San Francisco in San Francisco. Now we work to honor their memory, hard work and efforts working to raise money for FTD/ALS research so that no more families need be destroyed by this dreadful disease.
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FTD is a group of related conditions that share many clinical features and all result from progressive degeneration of the anterior temporal and frontal lobes of the brain. One particular form related to ALS is Picks Disease which is what afflicted these brothers.
This illness, unlike Alzheimers does not initially take away the memory, it steals your personality. It causes the affected to think, say and do things that are completely out of character and socially unacceptable and this condition progresses to a point that it steals the ability to communicate, function, swallow, and breathe. The brain literally and systematically shuts down the body until it stops completely.
The most disturbing element….it usually becomes apparent in the 50’s to early 60’s, but has most likely been progressing for years before diagnosis. These three brothers helped make great strides towards diagnosis, medicines and we hope eventual cure. Now we need your help to continue that work – fund the research – find a cure.
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