ALS, it must be one of the worst diseases. Patients receive increasingly poorer signals from the brain to the muscles, causing them to fail one by one, until eventually the respiratory muscles are also affected. Christine Dispa (64) from Brasschaat was diagnosed with ALS a year after symptoms appeared that she recognized all too well from her father’s years of illness. “When I turned 60, I thought ‘phew, I’m over it’. And then it started …” Today Christine is permanently in a wheelchair, she says she can do less and less. “There are difficult days, but I still enjoy it as much as possible.”
