{"id":12883,"date":"2026-02-21T20:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=12883"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:12:15","slug":"subtle-symptom-that-led-to-eric-danes-devastating-als-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=12883","title":{"rendered":"Subtle symptom that led to Eric Dane\u2019s devastating ALS diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eric Dane has reportedly died at 53 following a battle with ALS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After his diagnosis, the actor shared the first symptom he noticed\u2014weakness in his right hand\u2014which he initially brushed off. Best known as \u201cMcSteamy,\u201d Dane revealed in 2025 that he had ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. In an interview with <em>Good Morning America<\/em>, he said the early signs appeared about a year and a half before diagnosis, at first blaming the issue on too much texting or simple hand fatigue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Dane has reportedly died at 53 following a battle with ALS. After his diagnosis, the actor shared the first symptom he noticed\u2014weakness in his right hand\u2014which he initially brushed off. Best known as \u201cMcSteamy,\u201d Dane revealed in 2025 that he had ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. In an interview with Good Morning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}