A Take on a Life Worth Knowing - Seth Poling

If you’re anything like me, summer came quick, fast and in a hurry. Summer means trips, weekend getaways, camping and my personal favorite; beach vacations. I’ve always enjoyed traveling and experiencing new things. Typically, traveling is hectic and stressful until you get to your destination. The planning. The packing. The traveling. The unpacking. It all can seem daunting, even to the most experienced traveler. As a 90’s kid, there wasn’t a greater illustration of traveling mishaps than Home Alone. Home Alone is when a bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must pro

KYLE: These are questions I'm sure you have been asked, but I would like to know. Share how you found out about you having ALS and how you reacted. SETH: ALS affects everyone differently, so the diagnosis process is often long drawn out. For me, I first noticed a small muscle twitch in my right shoulder while on a cruise in 2014. I brushed it off and chalked it up as a possible symptom of an old injury. After 6 months of continuous twitching and some pain in my shoulder, I decided to see an Orthopedic Surgeon. The orthopedic surgeon scheduled an MRI which showed a torn rotator cuff and labrum. The surgeon suggested surgery, but advised that I should see a Neurologist prior to surgery to have the twitching looked at further. I went to my first Neurologist appointment at Ruby Memorial hospital in May 2015, without a care in the world. I had no idea that mine and my family's lives were about to be changed forever. The Neurologist examined me and determined that I was now twitchin