House of Beer Party Helps Our Friend Dan
Dan Soyka's condition has declined since being diagnosed with incurable ALS, but his friends are determined to help.
As Dan Soyka's illness progresses, his care gets more involved. This time last year, his wife Lisa Soyka, had watched Dan's condition downgrade from his usual wise-cracking, life-of-the-party self to not being able to speak or swallow. Now his condition is even worse. Dan still uses a syringe to eat and drink through a feeding tube. He breathes with the help of a tracheotomy tube. He's starting to lose the ability to walk, and has an increasing dependency on his wheel chair. He also has to be lifted to use the bathroom. "He doesn't have much leg strength left," Lisa said. Dan, 35, is diagnosed with ALS, an incurable disease that slowly degenerates nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, in essence, hindering voluntary muscle movement …
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Joe Kurtzke
4:42 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
My heart goes out to Dan and his family. My Aunt had ALS and it was hard to see such a vibrant person become afflicted with ALS. Her mind stayed intact and her view was that she was going to impact as many people as possible so she maintained the fight for a while and was always upbeat. She touched a lot of people with that kind of attitude. ALS is a cruel and expensive ordeal. Lisa is quite … more ›