If you dont know what the ICE BUCKET CHALLANGE is that everyone is talking about- someone challanges you to dump a bucket of ice water over your head. Why? Because they got challanged! If you get wet you donate 20 dollars if not you donate 100! Since July 29, when the campaign kicked off, more than 71,000 donors have donated $2.3 million dollars to the national ALS Association, the organization said. The organization collected $25,000 in the same period last year. What is ALS you ask? (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. Currently, there is only one drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat ALS, which only modestly extends survival by two to three months. Consequently, ALS is 100 percent fatal. In addition to acclimating to the challenges that come with losing control of voluntary muscle movement, people with the disease progressively lose their ability to eat, speak, walk, and eventually breathe. So in short, ALS is a DEATH SENTENCE.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:49:52 +0000
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