Walk to d'feet ALS Fundraising Results

My friend, Kim Kim, is walking to d'feet ALS today!! She personally raised $6246.00!!! Her originally goal was $2000, so I know she's extremely happy with the results! Her team raised a total of

$12,216.00!!

Hopefully with fundraisers like this one there will be enough money to make significant strides in the fight against ALS and FIND A CURE!

I've gotten in touch with my local ALSA chapter and have plans to walk next year myself. I'd love for you to find your local chapter and join us next year!

Facts You Should Know About ALS

• The onset of ALS is insidious with muscle weakness or stiffness as early symptoms. Progression of weakness, wasting and paralysis of the muscles of the limbs and trunk as well as those that control vital functions such as speech, swallowing and later breathing generally follows.

• ALS is not contagious.

• It is estimated that ALS is responsible for nearly two deaths per hundred thousand population annually. More people die every year of ALS than of Huntington's disease or multiple sclerosis and it occurs two-thirds as frequently as multiple sclerosis.

• Approximately 5,600 people in the U.S.are diagnosed with ALS each year. The incidence of ALS (two per 100,000 people) is five times higher than Huntington's disease and about equal to multiple sclerosis. It is estimated that as many as 30,000 Americans may have the disease at any given time.

• Although the life expectancy of an ALS patient averages about two to five years from the time of diagnosis, this disease is variable and many people live with quality for five years and more. More than half of all patients live more than three years after diagnosis.

• About twenty percent of people with ALS live five years or more and up to ten percent will survive more than ten years and five percent will live 20 years. There are people in whom ALS has stopped progressing and a small number of people in whom the symptoms of ALS reversed.

• ALS occurs throughout the world with no racial, ethnic or socioeconomic boundaries.

• ALS can strike anyone.