ALS Fear.

[Walking Circles 53]

I've been battling it for a few months now. Really sucks because I thought I was past this one.

Yesterday I fell off my back porch. I was carrying some very light boxes out back, one in each hand, and when I stepped my right foot down (there's about a half step height between my doorway and porch) as soon as it hit the porch I pitched over and fell. I think I recall my ankle rolling as it hit the porch, which my ankles are prone to, and I think I may have stepped with my foot partially on this thick plastic rug we have. The rug is about an inch in height so my foot may have been even more uneven.

Either way, I ate ****, HARD. Skinned that leg up, landed on my wrist on one side and elbow on the other.

I'm afraid this is due to some weakness. Later that night that same right foot kind dragged the ground at the tip for one step. Then it did it again just now while barefoot. Freaks me out that it's done that both with and without shoe now.

Now that right leg is twitching all over.

I've been terrified this is somehow the start of the end for me, and just about everything I see with any emotional content has been bringing me to tears.

Have any of you ever fell before without a very good explanation? Ever had the tip of a foot feel like it drug the ground for a bit during a step?

[Ironman 199]

On 9/9/2025 at 2:16 AM, Walking Circles said:

I've been battling it for a few months now. Really sucks because I thought I was past this one.

Yesterday I fell off my back porch. I was carrying some very light boxes out back, one in each hand, and when I stepped my right foot down (there's about a half step height between my doorway and porch) as soon as it hit the porch I pitched over and fell. I think I recall my ankle rolling as it hit the porch, which my ankles are prone to, and I think I may have stepped with my foot partially on this thick plastic rug we have. The rug is about an inch in height so my foot may have been even more uneven.

Either way, I ate ****, HARD. Skinned that leg up, landed on my wrist on one side and elbow on the other.

I'm afraid this is due to some weakness. Later that night that same right foot kind dragged the ground at the tip for one step. Then it did it again just now while barefoot. Freaks me out that it's done that both with and without shoe now.

Now that right leg is twitching all over.

I've been terrified this is somehow the start of the end for me, and just about everything I see with any emotional content has been bringing me to tears.

Have any of you ever fell before without a very good explanation? Ever had the tip of a foot feel like it drug the ground for a bit during a step?

Yeah, I have fallen like this.  I wasn't aware of my surroundings.  

Are you sure that what happened in ALS?  Things like this happen to be people pretty often.