Since its inception, I have participated in the ALS Steps for Hope event in one capacity or another - Walking, volunteering, and last year running my first 5K.  This year takes on a whole new meaning as I am running in support of my mom who was diagnosed with bulbar palsy onset of ALS in January 2018.

There is no cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).  There are no effective treatments, only symptom control.  As the nerve cells that help control muscles die in a person diagnosed with ALS, muscle control is lost.  It is an unforgiving disease that takes away speech, swallowing, and muscle movement, rendering the afflicted paralyzed –taking away quality of life before causing death.

Please join me in supporting research at Marshfield Clinic Health System to help spare future generations the devastating reality of this disease.