Overview
- In a first-person essay for The Cut, Rebecca Gayheart outlines how she has taken charge of coordinating Eric Dane’s care following his April 2025 ALS disclosure.
- Home care was approved only after multiple appeals, and support is now structured into 21 shifts that provide continuous 24/7 coverage.
- Gayheart says some shifts remain unfilled, leading her to cover them herself and, in one recent case, to enlist friends to complete an uncovered 12-hour period.
- She recounts an insurance employee telling her, “You can keep applying, and I will keep denying,” highlighting the bureaucratic barriers she faced.
- Gayheart writes that the parents informed their daughters together with help from a family therapist, and the girls later spoke with their father’s doctor to get answers.