MIAMI – The Stroll to Defeat ALS was a achievement, raising a lot more than $104,000 to support persons battling the disease in our neighborhood.
Hundreds of Floridians collected at Tropical Park to walk for a cherished 1.
The Wander to Defeat ALS is the organization’s signature celebration. All the revenue elevated straight supports reducing-edge investigation and affected individual care. In 2022, Wander to Defeat ALS events in Florida elevated above $902,000.
CBS News Miami Anchor Najahe Sherman was the function emcee and Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s workplace announced the ALS Consciousness Day proclamation prior to the stroll.
Associates of the Miami local community and people today living with ALS like Juan Hernandez, are rallying to come across a treatment for the disorder. Hernandez has been the key caregiver for his mom, who was identified with ALS at age 45.
“‘I really feel odd, I am finding tongue-tied.’ These terms from my mom’s mouth initiated the end of our stunning life and the starting of the darkest interval that my family has at any time endured. At age 45, my mom was diagnosed with ALS. I try to remember the working day we uncovered out. We were being puzzled, terrified, and total of questions: What was ALS? How could this effects my mother’s existence? What did it signify for her? For us? We would before long locate out. My mother, complete of lifetime, just concluded raising her two small children, went from feeding herself to becoming fed, from walking to being paralyzed in mattress, from chatting to staying barely audible,” said Hernandez.
ALS has no acknowledged bring about or remedy, but there is hope. For additional info on how you can aid stop by: als.org/florida.
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