“Three weeks later, it happens again, only worse,” Dane continued. “I can’t grip the chopsticks at all.”
This led the Last Ship star on what would become a nine-month period of “searching for answers” to his then-inexplicable symptoms, per the memoir, out Nov. 3.
Dane shared he was ultimately diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, by University of California, San Francisco neurologist Dr. Mark Terrelonge, writing that he immediately called Gayheart-Dane following the appointment.
And he told her the news was “what we feared.”
“I don’t remember a single word I said after that,” Dane wrote. “I remember only feeling a violent impact, like getting the wind knocked out of me, and Rebecca wailing on the other end of the phone, and then I really lose it, and my sobs make my body shudder, and I hear her words pouring out amid her tears, ‘I’m here, we’ll fight this together, I’m not going anywhere.’”