Jill Kruse, D.O. is part of The Prairie Doc team of physicians and currently practices as a hospitalist in Brookings, South Dakota.
On July 4, 1939 Lou Gehrig said these famous words at Yankee Stadium, “For the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break that I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” The bad break he was referring to was the diagnosis of a condition that would become synonymous with him a neuromuscular condition called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ALS i…