He can't drive, eventually can't walk, and then can't even use the bathroom on his own. He starts feeling the initial effects of his illness.Morrie and his wife are faced with the overwhelming question of figuring out what to do now that this bomb has dropped on their lives.After lots of tests he's diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease, a neurological disease that slowly leaves your body paralyzed, starting from the legs up.Next he has trouble walking, and though everyone tells him it's just old age, he knows inside that it's something else.In his sixties, Morrie develops asthma and is hospitalized after collapsing one autumn day.For the record, he's not crazy all, and instead he's incredibly intelligent and learned. He loved dancing to all kinds of music, and didn't care that people probably thought he was just crazy. In his able days, Morrie would go dancing every Wednesday night, all by himself.Morrie has a hunch that something's not right when he realizes that he can't dance anymore.In 1994, Morrie is given a "death sentence" (2.1).
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