Laurie Monk: The ALS Ice bucket challenge

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I was asked to do the the Ice Bucket Challenge... I did think long and hard about it... but I already know what ALS (or MND as it is known in the UK) is. So the important point for me was not to raise awareness, but it is to donate to a worthy cause.

So what is ALS and MND?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—also referred to as motor neurone disease (MND), Charcot disease, and, in the United States, Lou Gehrig's disease—is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It is characterised by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to muscle atrophy, difficulty in speaking (dysarthria), swallowing (dysphagia), and breathing (dyspnea). ALS is the most common of the five motor neuron diseases.


Famous people who have or had  ALS
Find out more here: http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/famous-als.shtml

Find out what it's like to live with ALS:
Sit in a chair for just 15 minutes moving nothing but your eyes. Nothing. No speaking, no scratching your nose, no shifting your weight, no changing the channel on the television, no computer work. Only your eyes. As you sit, imagine: this is your life. Your only life.
http://www.bostern.com/blog/2014/08/15/what-an-als-family-really-thinks-about-the-ice-bucket-challenge/
You can either donate or put a bucket of ice water over your head... hopefully most of ice buckethead people have also donated

You can donate here:
MND https://www.mndcommunity.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 (uk tax payers can make a 
Gift Aid donation)

Or if you want to help Jason Becker. Use paypal and donate to pat.becker@intres.com.



Or you can put a bucket of ice water over your head... there are a lot of people who have done a great job, so you don't need me to do it... but please remember to make some donation.

What did I do?  Well I made my $$$ donation to Jason Becker.

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