Hello everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well and are enjoying the (slow) crawl to nicer weather!

For those of you that don't yet know, (and I am  very sorry to have to let you know this way!) but I have been diagnosed with ALS. I appear to have the slow progressing variant, so I should be around for quite a while yet! So far it has only affected my hands and my breathing. I am mobile and plan to do everything I can to fight it and contribute what I can, to the best of my ability.

I am optimistic that these fundraisers have, do and will continue to, help fund research to treat this awful disease, as well as to raise money to support the ALS community and ultimately find a cure. (The official blurb is below.) I am putting together a team for the Walk to End ALS and hope you will consider sponsoring us.

Link is below.

Thank you very kindly for anything you can contribute!

Andrea

This summer I will be participating in the Walk to End ALS. Now more than ever, the ALS community needs our support to provide hope and help to families affected by ALS. That’s why I’m joining thousands of others, a part of a passionate and motivated community to “walk” in celebration of hope and a future without ALS. Please consider supporting me and donating towards this important cause.

Your support will help to:

create a better day-to-day reality for people and families living with ALS by providing community-based support throughout Ontario - like home visits and support groups – as well as necessary medical equipment like hospital beds, wheelchairs, stairlifts and other items that increase safety in the home, at no cost to those who need them.

further scientific progress by investing in the ALS Canada Research Program, which funds promising ALS research. This program provides peer-reviewed grants to researchers whose work has the greatest potential to advance the field of ALS. There’s been more progress made in ALS research in the last five years than over the last century – we need to keep building on this momentum.

Join me in making a difference. Please consider donating to my fundraising page as we work towards a future without ALS. 

Your support is needed now more than ever - we are stronger together!