Maybe you have seen videos of your facebook friends dumping ice water on their heads. Maybe you have heard people on the street talking of this elusive ice water challenge. Or perhaps you have been nominated yourself.
The ice bucket challenge is where you dump ice water on your head to raise awareness and/or money for a terrible disease called ALS.
The definition from ALS.org:
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.
How this relates to pouring ice water on you confuses me. I don't see the correlation, but if it is raising money and awareness, more power to you and the organization. Yet, here in California we are in a serious drought, and wasting water isn't helping. Maybe pour pool water on your head in the pool, or dirt, but please don't waste or precious water.
It is really important to know what you are fighting for. As Lord Chesterfield said, "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well." So if you decide to participate in this challenge, donate money, or help out in other ways, see this link, know that you are participating in something that will change the world, and your awareness is truly helping. Thank you.
P.S. This link: http://levittownnow.com/2014/08/19/local-woman-ice-bucket-challenge-nominates-three-big-celebrities/ explains why this challenge started and how pouring the water on yourself represents ALS because when you have ALS you feel the shock almost all the time of how you feel after you pour water on yourself.
The ice bucket challenge is where you dump ice water on your head to raise awareness and/or money for a terrible disease called ALS.
The definition from ALS.org:
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.
How this relates to pouring ice water on you confuses me. I don't see the correlation, but if it is raising money and awareness, more power to you and the organization. Yet, here in California we are in a serious drought, and wasting water isn't helping. Maybe pour pool water on your head in the pool, or dirt, but please don't waste or precious water.
It is really important to know what you are fighting for. As Lord Chesterfield said, "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well." So if you decide to participate in this challenge, donate money, or help out in other ways, see this link, know that you are participating in something that will change the world, and your awareness is truly helping. Thank you.
P.S. This link: http://levittownnow.com/2014/08/19/local-woman-ice-bucket-challenge-nominates-three-big-celebrities/ explains why this challenge started and how pouring the water on yourself represents ALS because when you have ALS you feel the shock almost all the time of how you feel after you pour water on yourself.
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