If this blog were a work of fiction, I would have introduced a car crash or a home invasion by now, to keep things dynamic for the readers. Or maybe I would just tell some stories about the arguments that Rob and I have around our ALS lives together. There’s nothing fictional about our fights. But there’s probably nothing truly interesting, either. Every married couple argues, just maybe not about the same stuff. I’m pretty sure that’s a direct quote from Tolstoy.

It’s not.

Let me put it this way. If love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, which we know they do because of the wildly successful relationship modeled on the TV show Married with Children, then ALS and marriage go together like a horse and something a horse really doesn’t like, such as a staircase or a flesh-eating horse disease. Read More>