A Quote by Steve Gleason

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

Steve Gleason

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Steve Gleason
American - Athlete
Born: March 19, 1977

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

Steve Gleason

A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

Steve Gleason

I work at a non-profit called ALS Worldwide, where we work with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) patients and families. It is often heavy work, but I'm grateful to be able to contribute to the ALS community. I'm constantly learning about science and medicine, and I have the honor of corresponding with patients throughout the world.

Chloe Benjamin

Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set Spot in the middle Static fade, statistic bit And soon I fade away, fade away

Dave Matthews

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

Steve Gleason

I have had patients die because of lack of insurance.

Cori Bush

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

Abraham Verghese

I'd rather die than fade away

Jon Bon Jovi

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

Mirai Nagasu

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Bob Dylan

I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.

Bernie Siegel

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

George Wald

Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.