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By Andy Fillmore
Correspondent
Published: Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Vietnam War veteran John Williams feared he would be a casualty of war 43 years after he left the service, which included harrowing times in Vietnam.
Williams, 67, was diagnosed with diabetes in 1985 and later experienced progressive difficulty with movement and muscular control, which he said was misdiagnosed as ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease).
"I had made funeral arrangements and began to get my affairs in order after a Veterans Affairs doctor diagnosed me in October 2010 as having Lou Gehrig's disease," Williams said.
But, after learning about the Veterans Administration's War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, Williams received a different diagnosis and, more importantly, a sense of hope.
The center's physician team diagnosed Williams' ailment as inclusion body myositis, which the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health calls a "progressive muscle inflammation accompanied by muscle weakness," which may bring on "falling and tripping" and additional problems in daily activities.
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