Paralysis

In June, speaking with Diane Sawyer, Dane candidly revealed how quickly the disease was changing his body. At the time, he said he had only “one functioning arm.”

“I didn’t really think anything of it at the time. I thought maybe I’d been texting too much, or my hand was fatigued, but a few weeks later I noticed it got a little worse,” he told Sawyer on Good Morning America.

“My dominant side. My left side is functioning; my right side has completely stopped working. It’s going. I feel like maybe a couple, few more months, and I won’t have my left hand either. It’s sobering,” he added.

His condition appears to have worsened dramatically since then. According to RadarOnline, Dane now requires the use of a wheelchair and “struggles to speak.”

‘Tomorrow isn’t promised’

Friends say that the progression has been swift and devastating, taking a toll not only on his body but also on his spirit.

“This diagnosis has been devastating,” a source told the Daily Mail. “All through this, it just keeps getting worse and is very sad, but Eric is trying to put on as much of a brave face as possible because he wants to enjoy what he has now because he now knows with his full heart that tomorrow isn’t promised.