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Ice Bucket Challenge

8/19/2014

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After a week away and being completely disconnected from email, text, and facebook, I returned to find that three of my friends had challenged me to the ice bucket challenge in support of ALS. The rule is that if you do not accept the challenge within 24 hours, you donate $100 to ALS. It's an amazing cause and I didn't hesitate to make my donation. However, my children (ages 9 and 12) saw things a bit differently than I did. Check out this short video to find out how.
From the ALS website: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons  die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.

Most commonly, ALS strikes people between the ages of 40 and 70, and as many as 30,000 Americans have the disease at any given time. ALS has cut short the lives of other such notable and courageous individuals as Hall of Fame pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Senator Jacob Javits, actors Michael Zaslow and David Niven, creator of Sesame Street Jon Stone, television producer Scott Brazil, boxing champion Ezzard Charles, NBA Hall of Fame basketball player George Yardley, pro football player Glenn Montgomery, golfer Jeff Julian, golf caddie Bruce Edwards, British soccer player Jimmy Johnstone, musician Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter), photographer Eddie Adams, entertainer Dennis Day, jazz musician Charles Mingus, former vice president of the United States Henry A. Wallace and U.S. Army General Maxwell Taylor.

You can donate at http://www.alsa.org/
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Meri Jo Hall
8/20/2014 01:16:22 pm

Hey John! Thanks so much for the donation toward helping to find a cure for ALS! Great job to your kids for dousing you too! Now, On to Find a CURE FOR MS TOO!!!

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