Maybe this trait comes from athletics, I don t know. I am very fortunate that Linda, my wife of 40 years, is a wonderful caregiver and has contributed significantly to my survival. This is an important variable with which I hope all patients are blessed. I ve always been an optimist and feel that medical progress is on an exponential upswing. There is no such thing as false hope.
Hope is hope.
You know, Stephen Hawking has said on numerous occasions that he doubts whether he would have accomplished so much in the field of astrophysics if it had not been for ALS causing him to concentrate and focus on this. I expect, in a much lesser capacity, to accomplish things I otherwise would not have been able to do. In 1981 I resigned from Dow to start my own private investment business. We relocated to Fredericksburg, Texas, a small German community in the Texas Hill Country, where I owned a small ranch. At that point in my life, I was truly experiencing success.