I'm very surprised you haven't heard of it Annabelle. The formal name is Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (A L S for short), but it is commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the baseball player Lou Gehrig who came down with it. Basically, you lose voluntary control of your muscles in a gradual way until you can't even swallow. Horrible.
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