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Todd Neva

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Todd Neva is co-author of Heavy, Finding Meaning after a Terminal Diagnosis, A Young Family’s First Year with ALS.

In June 2010, then 39 years old, Todd was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Todd Neva is a native of Minnesota, where he received a BS in Business and an MBA from the University of Minnesota. He worked in marketing research, finance and manufacturing for sixteen years before becoming disabled in June 2012.

Prior to becoming disabled, Todd worked for a large manufacturing company in Racine, Wisconsin, where he and his wife Kristin Neva lived with their two young children, Sara and Isaac. The Nevas relocated to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to be near Kristin’s family.
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Finding Meaning Together After 16 Years with ALS

September 12, 2026, by Kristin Neva

My husband, Todd, and I celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary this week. We’ve spent 16 of those years with ALS since Todd’s diagnosis in 2010.

I’ve been thinking recently about how we have found meaning within this difficult life we’ve been living for so long.

Todd and Kristin Neva are shown in Oct 2002 and in Aug 2026.

After Todd’s diagnosis, we wrote a memo

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Published on September 12, 2026 09:53
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Finding Meaning Together After 16 Years with ALS


September 12, 2026, by Kristin Neva
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“There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.”
― Todd Neva, Heavy: Finding Meaning after a Terminal Diagnosis, A Young Family's First Year with ALS

“There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.”
― Todd Neva, Heavy: Finding Meaning after a Terminal Diagnosis, A Young Family's First Year with ALS

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