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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.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

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.

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

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

I think I had four concussions throughout my career that were diagnosed, and I guess that I've had seven more. But the fact that three of them came in a four month span when I was making a comeback in 2004 is a little bit scary.

A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.

To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.