Don Moir was diagnosed with ALS in March 1995. By May of 1999, according to the video above, the nervous-system disease robbed him of his ability to speak when he was placed on a ventilator.
Thanks to Not Impossible Labs, a nonprofit that “crowd-solves” seemingly insurmountable healthcare issues, Don has learned to use a custom-designed speaking computer — and he used it to tell his wife “I love you” out loud for the first time in 15 years.
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Last year, Not Impossible figured out how to 3-D print prosthetic arms for amputees in Sudan.
Readers interested in donating to Not Impossible may do so at notimpossiblelabs.com, and to the SpeakYourMind Foundation at speakyourmindfoundation.org.
