Broadway star Aaron Lazar reveals he has Lou Gehrigs Disease

That and ALS, how terrible!

Is this the one where you shake like jello?

Apparently he was diagnosed 2 years ago. ALS patients have different life expediencies but few live past 3 years after diagnosis.

Just about the worst diagnosis out there. Sending prayers.

One of my many irrational fears is of getting ALS and having to try and die with dignity. I hate this for him and his family. ARGH!

Sad news. We went to the same university and I had the pleasure of talking to him a few times at alumni events and he’s genuinely a nice guy, in addition to be a fantastic performer

[quote] "Just about the worst diagnosis out there. Sending prayers."

It genuinely is, R4. ALS is absolutely worst nightmare territory for anyone.

[quote]I know it’s wrong to say this but I hate when things like this happen to really good looking men.

Then why would you say it?

Poor bastard.

Why not Trump?

This killed Rebecca Luker. Not good for Aaron. Very sad but we all go eventually and it rarely ends well.

I saw him in LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA after he took over the role of Fabrizio, and he was much better than Matthew Morrison.

[quote]Broadway star Aaron Lazar reveals he has Lou Gehrigs Disease

Well, why doesn't he give it back?

r11=Lea Michele

Jesus God in Heaven, why'd you have to kill such hot snatch?

Cue the poster to mutter passive aggressive reference to Boyd Gaines and Malcolm Gets.

This poor guy! ALS is a death sentence for anyone. Can't believe millions have been raised with that ice bucket challenge and still no cure.

Is it the 24 hour kind?

Rebecca Luger died just over one year after her diagnosis

[quote] This poor guy! ALS is a death sentence for anyone. Can't believe millions have been raised with that ice bucket challenge and still no cure.

Or cancer, or MS, or MD or HIV or dozens of other diseases that should have had a cure by now. That's because 95% of all those millions go to pay the salaries of all the people working in non-profit and their cushy offices and bunches of perks.

Actually, the ALS Association which ran the Ice Bucket Challenge gives 100% of the money recieved to research. So, fuck you, r19.

R20, R19 apparently thinks that all the people who do that research (and all the people whose work is necessary to support them should be unpaid, and they should work in bare fields (so they don't have to pay for offices).

Fuck, this is awful.

For everyone except his doppelganger John Behlmann.

I wish him well.

I think Lazar is a baritone and Behlmann is a tenor.

Go full frontal while you can still stand up, Aaron!

It’s a horrible diagnosis. My nightmare diagnosis. I would make plans for assisted death if ever faced with ALS.

r19 to be fair HIV is now a manageable diagnosis with prolonged life expectancy and we have precautionary medicines thanks to the enormous amount of attention and fundraising AIDS has received

some of these medical mysteries are just tougher than others

I mean, they still haven't cured dying yet. Pretty sure that one got the most attention.

They have yet to determine the actual cause of ALS. There are a handful of theories. Is it environmental, is prior exposure to a certain virus, is it a disorder that starts in the brain?

That’s so sad! He was fantastic in Light in the Piazza. And beautiful.

Millennials can turn tragedies into blessings and opportunities for growth.

[quote]Rebecca Luger

Well at least her family had all of that money from the gun patent.

Not always an immediate death sentence. Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS in 1963 and lived another 55 years.

Hawking had a very unique variant of ALS that progresses much slower than most other ALS patients.

[quote] [R20], [R19] apparently thinks that all the people who do that research (and all the people whose work is necessary to support them should be unpaid, and they should work in bare fields (so they don't have to pay for offices).

Why don't you not speak for me. (Or just not speak at all.) You're naive if you think that the majority of the money raised by these organizations goes to anything but administration.

[quote] Rebecca Luger died just over one year after her diagnosis

After she [italic] went public [/italic] with her diagnosis, numbskull. Reading comprehension much?

[quote] Broadway Star Rebecca Luker Dies at 59 Just 10 Months After Revealing ALS Diagnosis

And it's Luker not Luger. Typing skils much?

[quote]In February, Luker revealed on Twitter she had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. "Hello friends. I have some tough news. Late last year I was diagnosed with ALS," Luker tweeted at the time. "I have the best medical care in the world and the greatest support.

She died December 2020. In February of 2020, she revealed her diagnosis. When she revealed her diagnosis in February, she says she received it late last year, meaning in late 2019, she was diagnosed. If she was diagnosed in late 2019, and died in December 2020, it would have been a little over one year since receiving her diagnosis.

The stupidity of people on the Internet, especially those who enjoy being annoying scolds, should no longer fail to astound me, and yet here you are.

Apologies. I just re-read the article; I'd done the math wrong in my head. I stand corrected. And chastised.

Wow, an apology. That's actually quite big for an anonymous Internet forum. I guess I can unpin the voodoo doll now.

I think Huntington’s Disease may be as bad, if not worse.

Update

He is using a walker now

In a wheelchair now

One of the few things Canada has gotten right is legal,medically assisted dying. For things like this, I'm grateful we have it. I hope he is able to go out on his own terms and find some measure of peace before that happens. Very tragic diagnosis.

Aaron has six weeks left and is preparing for death.

What did Lou Gehrig die of?

The 24 hour kind?

A friend of mine from high school was diagnosed with it last June and died Jan. 31st. It's a horrible disease to die from.

Weirdly, it hits most people at around age 60, like it did my friend from high school and like it did Rebecca Luker. Lazar is young to have it (he's only 49).

R43 - I'm going to be generous and just assume English is a second language or you have some kind learning disability. Because that is not what his post says.

Good morning

Epic six week stretch of Surrender

Giving it all to God

Facing death on a Journey

Experiencing no mind

This is all there is

Surrender to your bliss

R47 how else am I supposed to interpret this?

I followed this guy with ALS, but lost track of him when I closed my IG. I just found him again only to see that there've been no posts in over two years.

They didn't update his page, but he died in Dec 22

Beloved actor Michael Zaslow also had ALS, dying in 1998 or 1999.

[quote] "Heavens to Betsy--what a DREADFUL idea!"

I looked up that quote. Also from that 1994 episode:

[quote] You know, they're talking about privatizing the park. A subway token to enter or $30 a year. Trump thinks he can run it at a profit.

R48 - I think he was looking back on whatever he did over the PAST six weeks. Presumably referring to the treatments and practices he was engaging in to make whatever remaining time he has as productive and comfortable as possible. You can see him engaging in physical therapies, meditation and spiritual practices in his past stories. It sounds like he was saying he had an epic six weeks of those practices and is at peace with inevitability of his own death.

Indeed, R52; I remember that line, as well. Very well-written episode.

In each of their scenes together Zaslow and Waterston give a master class in acting.

I lost an Uncle, and his daughter my cousin Francie to ALS. It was beyond anything I've ever seen anyone go through. She was so brave and generous throughout it all. Really a great woman. Wishing him & his loved ones well.

The love of my life died of this 4.5 years ago, less than a year after his diagnosis.

Just imagine waking up every morning and taking inventory of what you are no longer able to do today.

So sorry for your loss, R56, and for what you and your partner went through.

Despite his imminent death, I still think he's the luckiest, luckiest, man, man, on, on, the, the face, face, of, of the, the earth, earth.

Your body fails but your mind stays sharp, completely aware of everything. It’s an awful, awful way to go.

Same with Parkinson's.