Iguana make a pun but decided against it.

You can still have it without symptoms. It may be dormant in your body.

You’re not wrong, I abandoned the he project to keep up with the change in his symptoms.

On a basic level I took apart a USB laser mouse, $20 Logitech, and extended the connections of the left and right clicks with a bit of 22 gauge wire. The sensor was flipped up and with a smooth slipper would act as a mouse pad mimicking the motion of movement.

Back in 2010 there wasn’t much on the market that was affordable. The best I saw was a roller ball that could be manipulated with the tongue. Now you can get a foot mouse for $80, but back then the cheapest I could find was $250

Thanks.

I did make a mouse that he could use his feet with but….ALS made my project moot

That’s the worse part about ALS, at a certain point you lose the ability to even take your own life

Now be a family member who can’t communicate with someone they love dearly.

Now imagine watching this person lose the ability to manipulate the world around them.

Now imagine that they no longer can interact with anything and their only choice is trust people around them care enough to do what ever they can, as you’re trapped in your own body.

Then think about how the headline mentions a break through of 62 words a minute and the best you can comment is “sad”.

I fucking hate ALS

With my father we got an IR camera that could track his heads movement to use a computer mouse.

I attached a laser pointer to a pair of safety glasses and printed out a QWERTY keyboard for him to spell out his thoughts.

Both worked for a time. Fuck ALS

Look at mister optimist about OP reaching Neptune safely.