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Local doctor reflects on ‘fantastic’ career after being diagnosed with terminal disease
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REXBURG — A well-known doctor who has helped bring life into the world has been given an unexpected medical diagnosis that has changed his future.
John Allred, 53, has been an OB-GYN in Rexburg for 21 years at Madison Women’s Clinic where he is also a partner in the business. He has delivered thousands of babies with an estimated 3,748 being born at Madison Memorial Hospital.
“The medicine is wonderful, but it’s developing the relationships with the patients that have been fantastic,” Allred said as he reflected on his career.
Not to mention, he has worked alongside his younger brother, Matt Allred. They are 14 years apart.
“It’s been actually really fun to get to know him. He was really young when I left for college, so I didn’t know him all that well,” John said. “But we have gotten to the point that when we are doing surgery together, we talk about life because we know what to do.”
However, life for John recently changed after he got a medical diagnosis that forced him to retire at the end of September.
He and his wife of 31 years, Nanette Allred, sold their house and are moving to Utah.
“We have been seeing symptoms coming on for about a year and a half, but I wasn’t officially diagnosed until the end of September. Then, I had a confirmatory diagnosis at the University of Utah on Oct. 30,” John said.
He was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s a nervous system disease that weakens muscles and impacts physical function. The disease gets worse over time.
According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms include trouble walking or doing usual daily activities, hand weakness, slurred speech, or trouble swallowing.
There is no cure.
“We were a little shocked and we were told that I would be dead by that same time next year (in September). We basically went out in the car, sat, and stared straight ahead for 20 minutes. It was kind of hard to wrap our minds around it,” John recalled of that moment with his wife.
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