If you're not familiar with the #icebucketchallenge you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks. Basically, a person is nominated by a friend to have a bucket of ice water poured on him/her (mine really did have ice, but it melted) and must either accept the challenge within 24 hours or donate money to alsa.org for research- or both! As a person accepts the challenge, he/she nominates three more people and the chain continues on. This phenom has swept the country and helped to spread awareness about ALS like never before.
I thought that this ice bucket challenge was a dumb thing at first, but after I saw more and more of them on Instagram and Twitter from distant friends along with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and plenty other professional athletes and celebrities, I wanted to know just what it was about. I hadn't been familiar with Lou Gehrig's Disease before and decided to look ALS up. The alsa.org site is really something. It had information about the challenge, what ALS is, the research, and how to donate and get involved!
If you don't already know,
"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," 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." (alsa.org)
The closest and soonest event walks are in the first weekend of October, the Kern County Walk October 4, 2014 Bakersfield, CA and Ventura/Santa Barbara County Walk Oct. 5 in Ventura. You can make a team to walk and raise money. Maybe we can come together to make a team!
I highly suggest going to the website, just checking it out and becoming aware of what affects so many people can change your perspective if you think it's just a stupid challenge. That's the point of it anyway, letting others know what it is and how they can help.
[I was nominated by Michael Hall and nominated Whitney Houg and my cousins Shailynn Joseph and Jeff Snyder!]
Some of the ones I've seen
Bill Gates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS6ysDFTbLU
David Beckham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRHOk5r7BQE
Ansel Elgort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42Ulr3kZAI
Emma Stone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xWx5y1H6C4
Michael Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo1tZ4Bjnno
Taylor Swift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS8PHyZoah4
Ashton Kutcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_YChPGQels
Funny Fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kjhmIM9JM
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