Thank you Bizi. ALS has no mercy on the people who come down with the disease. Her child,my mother,was stricken with MS,and my sister has MS. We do not know why this has happened to the females in the family in the last three generations on my mother's side of the family. ALS is different,but it's similar. ALS does take the life of the one who has it. They may have it for two years. We hope that my sister's two daughters don't get MS. So far they are OK. BF