Remember the ice bucket challenge? Or Stephen Hillenberg?
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. It leads to the loss of muscle control, often resulting in difficulty speaking, swallowing, and eventually breathing. Every day, people living with ALS face incredible physical and emotional challenges as they lose the ability to do the things most of us take for granted.
Every 90 minutes, someone is diagnosed with the disease and someone passes away from it.
This fatal disease can strike anyone at any time. It takes away the freedom to walk, to talk, to run and dance. To laugh. To hug. To eat. To breathe.
Right now, there is no cure for ALS.
Every year, thousands of people have to face a new reality of never growing old, and slowly succumbing to a painful death where their body gives out before they’re ready to go.
Every year, thousands of loved ones have to watch their parents, grandparents, and siblings suffer with this awful disease. And I am one of them.
My mom has ALS, and my grandmother-in-law died of ALS three years ago.
There is nothing I can do to save my mom from ALS, and there’s nothing I could have done to save my grandmother.
But we can do something together, now.
If my tarot readings or my blog has helped you in any sort of way, I’m not going to ask you to donate to a ko-fi. Instead, I’m going to ask that you help fund ALS research.
Help save thousands from the fate that’s befallen my mother, and save thousands from my position, loosing a parent to such an awful disease so young.
Please, donate to the ALS foundation today.
If you can’t donate, reblog. No one should have to go through what my grandmother-in-law went through. No one should have to go through what my mom is going through.
Let’s end ALS. Together.
