John Carthum: Outliving ALS By 27 Years

Here I talk to someone who has ALS for over 25 years. I reconnect with a former colleague from Kraft Nabisco, John Carthum. It was a few decades ago when I heard John left the company for medical reasons. I never knew what hand he was dealt that made him have to leave his career at such a young age until I was diagnosed with ALS in 2004. That’s when I learned that it was also ALS that John was diagnosed with in 1995. Now he is outliving the typical 2 to 5 ...