Photo of the Week: A Gathering of Hearts

Last month, we featured a blog interview with ALS advocate Debra Quinn, who is the spokesperson for the Hearts for ALS NY organization. Today we’d like you to meet her PatientsLikeMeInMotion-sponsored team for the 2011 Hearts for ALS NY Walk, which took place on August 21, 2011, in Angelica, New York. Congrats to Debra (far… Continue reading Photo of the Week: A Gathering of Hearts

I Will Not Be Quiet: An Interview with ALS Advocate Debra Quinn

Debra Quinn’s father, sister, aunt, grandmother and great aunt all passed away from ALS, and in 2009, she was diagnosed with ALS herself.  This hereditary form of the disease is called familial ALS (fALS). After the loss of her younger sister in 2007, Debra decided that she could no longer stay silent.Today, she is “the… Continue reading I Will Not Be Quiet: An Interview with ALS Advocate Debra Quinn