Summary:
- Sandra Bullock's partner Bryan Randall passes away after battle with ALS.
- Sandra's sister praises her for caring for Bryan during his illness.
- Bryan Randall diagnosed with ALS in 2020, cared for by a team of nurses.
- ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, attacks the nervous system.
- Millions raised for ALS research, including the ice bucket challenge.
- ALS life expectancy, symptoms, and potential for future research advancements.
Sandra Bullock's sister is praising the Oscar winner today for the way she cared for her long-time partner during his very private battle with ALS.
ALS is a cruel disease, she writes on Instagram, but there is some comfort in knowing he had the best of caretakers in my amazing sister and the band of nurses she assembled who helped her look after him in their home. Sandra met Bryan Randall in 2015, five years after her ugly divorce from TV personality Jesse James. Randall is a former male model, he later became a photographer. They met when he was hired to photograph her son's birthday party. He also snapped this People magazine cover with Sandra and her two children. I found the love of my life.
We shared two beautiful children, three children, his older daughter. He's the example that I would want my children to have. Sandra assembled a team of nurses to care for Bryan Randall around the clock. He was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease in 2020. The disease attacks the nervous system and millions of dollars have been raised for research, most famously during the ice bucket challenge nearly 10 years ago. Remember this? Then after another, after another, regular people and celebrities all willing to get drenched for a great cause. ALS is a terrible disease.
The average life expectancy after diagnosis is two to five years, but some patients may live for years or even decades. It's easier to think of it being the opposite of Alzheimer's disease. So you keep the brain, but you lose the body. So you lose your ability to walk, to use your hands, to talk, to swallow, and eventually you lose the ability to breathe. It may be too late for Bryan Randall and a grieving Sandra Bullock, but experts say hope is on the horizon. Science moves very slowly, but since the ice bucket challenge, things have moved very quickly. It's raised not only a lot of money, which is needed for research, but it also has raised a lot of awareness.