How strangely like my aunt...

[lsanderson]

Longtime Expert on A.L.S. Now Knows It All Too Well
By JOHN SCHWARTZ

"SAN FRANCISCO - Dr. Richard K. Olney steers his motorized wheelchair toward the front door of the A.L.S. Center at the University of California, San Francisco.

Like other patients who visit the center, he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that destroys the nerves that control movement, trapping the victim in an increasingly inert body. It is inevitably fatal, often within a year or two."