Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Ice Bucket Challenge
To start off I would like to say Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ah-my-uh-TRO-fik- La-tuh-ru skluh-RO-sis) also known as ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's Disease. Lou Gehrig’s Disease affects the motor neurons in the brain and over years shrinks the nerve cell. Motor neurons are the nerve in your brain that controls your muscle movement, upper and lower motor neurons give messages to the brain. Upper sends the messages from the brain to the spinal cord, Lower sends message from the spinal cord to the muscle. So in the end you lose control of your body and turn Paralyzed, but luckily you don’t lose control of your mind however for most you can’t talk. Now you know what it is and if you already knew about it you just got refreshed so you can actually write a good reply because you know what ALS is.
Facts about ALS:
- ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's Disease after Lou Gehrig a Hall-a-Fame baseball player for the New York Yankees who was diagnosed with ALS in 1930.
- In England and Australia ALS is called Motor Neurone Disease(MND)
- The French mostly refer to ALS as maladie de Charcot the after the French Doctor who first wrote about ALS in 1869
Next up, let's now start up with something fun and freezing... the ALS donation. Millions of people and celebrities did the ALS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE. Once you get nominated you have 24 hours to do the challenge and donate. The challenge (as I will call it)has been all over the web so I would not be surprised if you also know about it with all the videos and comments around the web. The reason they do the challenge is because there are walks and runs for cancer and other donating things for different causes, but since ALS is very rare they only do one huge thing to donate once a year. We Canadians made wait for it …$13,263,681 our goal was $10,000,000 so we’ve raised 133% of our goal, great job canada! To see the video’s go on YOUTube and search Ice Bucket Challenge and there they are.
Extra: The official name Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis comes from the Greek words:
- "a" for without
- "myo" for muscle
- "trophic" for nourishment
- "lateral" for side (of the spinal cord)
- "sclerosis" for hardening or scarring
Now here are my questions for you: (you don’t just have to answer the questions you can write more if you have your own IDEAS, which I am sure you do)
- Did you/ your family or someone you know do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and donate? (I do)
- Have you heard of Lou Gehrig’s Disease or ALS?
- Have you and your family ever donated to any cause?
- Do you know how much other countries made?
- Do know anyone who has Lou Gehrig’s Disease?
I hope you enjoyed my blog on ALS and I am excited to see your comments!
So, the ALS ice bucket challenge is a pretty popular thing. I have heard of the ALS disease.... obviously, how can you not when its all over YOUTUBE and the internet.
ReplyDeleteIt would really suck if you got ALS, you can't move, talk, or even eat.
I think it is a good idea to donate money. However, I do not see the point of dumping ice water on your self, I get it raises awareness and stuff, but couldn't you just tell people that this is a very serious disease... because it is.
I have done the ALS ice bucket challenge, and donated as well. When you pour the water on yourself you feel like you're having eight million seizures in one second.
It's really cold....... that one was pretty obvious
I don't know why I am putting this down, but I just figuered out that the Netherlands has only donated 1 million dolleres. Thats just sad.....
And finally, No I do not know anybody with ALS. I have heard of the disease but I do not know anybody that has it.
`SHERMAN
As much as I like that the ice bucket challenge and that it is for a good cause, It can be annoying at times. Its those viral sensations that I never catch on too. And a lot of people don't even donate the required 100$. I dont do it when i'm nominated for the challenge because I hardly have any money. I have 2$ and a nickel. And to me, the ice bucket challenge(the people who don’t donate) is wasting water and my sanity. But, I would hate to have ALS. paralyzed, wheelchair bound, muscle deterioration, not being able to speak and many other unlisted things. To me this million dollar cause is just a bunch of people pouring water on their heads for the heck of it. But I still dislike ALS immensely and would not want to be someone who has to suffer through that horrible disease. I have heard of als because of the 1.3 billion(thats being figurative) videos on youtube. My family has donated to causes but I forget the names. I do not know how much money other countries made donating. I thankfully know no one that has ALS or I would feel really sorry for them and break down crying everytime I see them because I feel so bad for them.
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I have heard of ALS but this is the first time I’ve known what it was about. Also I think if people would get off their butts they would find a cure for some diseases like ALS or cancer. Anyway back to the point I have heard of ALS but not that many details.
ReplyDeleteI have donated to charity once or twice but I can’t remember what charity. Also if there was any other times I wouldn’t because I wasn’t born. Also I would like to donate to more charity’s but it wouldn’t be one hundred dollars, I don’t have that much money in my wallet!
I don’t know how much money other countries have made to support ALS but I can estimate about 3,000 dollars per countries and cities. All I know is that it would be a lot of money. I wish they would just come up with a cure so people don’t have to suffer any more.
I’m pretty sure I don’t know anyone with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease unless my mom knows someone who has it, but i'm fifty percent sure she doesn't.
So on that note that was my thoughts and comments.
Morningmist
ALS is very bad for people and if they have a baby they can't hold it which is very sad cause they want to hold their baby.Sometimes I wish that there was no such thing of ALS or cancer or other things. cause thoughts things can kill you.
ReplyDeleteIce bucket challenge sound cool. I really want to do it but I am not sure if my nana would let me because she would not let me take all the ice.
No one in my family had ALS if they I would look after they because I care about People that have ALS it is very sad to see some one is a wheel chair.
~BUBBLES
Imagine having that disease not be able to move,Not be able to eat properly its just like being a baby all over again.Plus its really cool how almost all the people from famous to non-famous people care, and are donating all this money to help this one person. If i had the money i would most definitely donate to the ALS, I would be prepared for that bucket to be dunked on my head. No I had not donated to a cause yet, But this video showed me a lot and how important the donating is because how many lives this donation it could save.You know terry fox right its just like the same story but for a different cause.If people don’t donate then how will feel if no one donated for you, It would suck so thats why you should make a difference and donate to ALS!!
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Actually, my mom and big sister got nominated, but they didn’t donate of freeze themselves. But on the other hand,lot’s of my friends have done it. I really Kind of want to do the ALS Ice bucket challenge but first of all, I have no money, second I don’t go on social media…much. My mom said that my little sister and I could do it on her behalf, but we never got around to it.
ReplyDeleteBefore the ALS Ice bucket challenge, I didn’t know anything about it. When I watched a video that my teacher showed my class, I almost cried(stupid emotions.)
My family,I think we have donated to something, but we're not the kind of family that donates to things. I would like to donate but I have no money, and my family is on a budget.
I don’t know how much money other country’s, but I would imagine it’s not that much more than Canada.
I don’t know anybody who has ALS.I still feel so very sorry for the people that have it. I think who ever has it, has a really tough life.
~supergirl
I have definitely heard of ALS or Lou Gehrig’s before because my mother is a nurses aid at the Edmonton General Hospital and works with all kinds of people that have diseases. She is mostly working with Cancer and ALS patients so she ALWAYS is giving me these super long lectures about sanitation and disease. Anyways, Me, my Mom and my brother Elijah all did the Ice Bucket Challenge but we forgot to donate. :( . Also my Aunty Candace did it at 10:00AM in July sometime. I think she actually donated.
ReplyDeleteMy family at my Mom’s house, I don’t think that we have ever donated to research funds for disease but we have donated for charities for church and for My Choir. I don’t know how much other countries made but I highly doubt that they made any more than Canada because we made 13 million some dollars.
I guess I DO technically know people who have Lou Gehrig’s, just not in person. It makes me sad that people one day are playing baseball and then the next day you can’t even move your lips. I guess it also shows how much we take for granted like being able to move. The human body is an evolutionary miracle that has taken years, centuries to evolve. What makes me mad about the disease is that it leaves your mind alone, so therefore your intellectual stability is still the same but your body is failing!
I think that the actual science on the disease and how it works it very interesting and that it should be simple for scientists or people who study disease or whatever should have figured out a cure by now. But it does make me happy that ALS is raising awareness and it is getting money for reseach. So I guess that’s all I have to say. BYE!!!
lem
The ice bucket challenge is a very well known charity to support people of ALS. I know that many of my friends and family have done the ice bucket challenge. Also I know that many superstars have done it and it has gone viral all over the internet. However I personally have not done the ice bucket. My mother had seen a bulletin on the news saying that someone had died from the ice bucket challenge. Thus she would not let me do it, even though I really wanted to.
ReplyDeleteNo have not heard of ALS till now, I am very glad that I now know about it. It a very sad thing if you do get it. Sadly it not the most well known disease so it doesn't get a lot of recognition till now. If you have it I think that it is very unfortunate because it is a really sad thing that you become paralyzed from ALS. I think that now with the ice bucket challenge going around it will get tons of recognition, that any charity deserves. Yes, my family has donated to the cancer society many times. It always feels good to donate to any charity and know that you are making a difference. Since the whole ice bucket challenge is new to me so I don’t really know how much other countries. However, I am pretty sure that Australia made 1.5 million dollars(thats what I heard on the news). No I don’t know anyone that has had ALS disease. I have heard that it is somewhat rare and not many people have it.
~Kit Kat bar
Sadly I have not donated to the ALS foundation or done the ice bucket challenge because I have not been nominated :( Yes I have heard ALS before infact if you go on IG (Instagram) there great vines of people doing the Ice Bucket Challenge. I am not sure if my family have donated to any cause besides the food bank and jump rope for heart! I have no clue what other countries made… hold on let me check! There has been over 13 million donations! Besides the baseball player there is only one person who I know that has had it. That was my Great-Grandma who died from it :( Great post Tigerlilly! I really enjoyed this post! I’m so glad that you took the time to write about this great cause
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Not a lot of people have ALS. I do not know anyone who has it. My cousin did the ice bucket challenge. My other cousin abby did not do it. I hope people realize it is a bad disease and do something about it. I do not know anyone how has Lou Gehrig’s Disease my cousins dad josh has ms. als is very popular on the web. why do you dump water/ice/snow on your head. people say it is to feel like you have als so it feels like you're cold all the time I do not understand it.
ReplyDeleteI have seen many youtubers do the ALS ice bucket challenge such as Daithi de nogla, Markiplier, TheBajanCanadian and Xrpmx13. I did not do the challenge myself but i may do it because I will have something to put on youtube. I have heard of ALS but when I heard of it I did not know what it meant because I just thought it was something that people just wanted to do because it was fun. When I saw Daithi do it he did it with Coca Cola buckets and one broke at the bottom. When TheBajanCanadian he used a huge recycle bin that has teleporting powers or just a regular
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The ALS ice bucket challenge has raised over 3 milion dollars in canada that is soooooooo awesome! I wish i could donate but… I can’t unfortunately but all you peeps out there donate for me (: but anyway thank you all you people who donated and done the challenge you are awesome!
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DeleteThe only reason I know about ALS is because I actually did the Ice Bucket Challenge. It was quite the experience! Instead of pouring ice water over my head, I jumped into a lake off a deck that was 13 degrees celsius. Thats FREEZING! I also donated $55 of allowance money to the cause (because I didn't have $500!!).
ReplyDeleteA lot of people ask me how much people in other countries made. I usually reply " I don't have the slightest clue (because I don't)" I do, nevertheless, know that there is probably more than one website that has a good answer.
I do not know anyone that has ALS accept Peter Frase, but he started this whole thing. Infact, he is probably the most famous person to have ALS.
~THE-SNAJ
I have been nominated for ALS ice bucket challenge and I have only 12 hours to do it and i'm going to do it as soon as i get home from school. I have donated to other causes like cancer starving children in india and I will soon donate to this cause and it will be a 100 dollar donation.
ReplyDeleteI do not know anyone who has als and I feel so very bad for the people who do have it I hope they do find the cure in the next few years and keep up the great work with the viral ice bucket challenge and I nominate my mom and dad you have 24 hours so get to it and thats is all
~monkeyman
No one in my family has dun the lce bucked challenge and has not donated any money.I have heard of the disease and i whacht some of the movies.My family has never donated money to any cause.I do not now how much money other contries made by doing the lce bucked challenge but prodadly over thousand dollers.i bo not now who has Lou gehrig,s disease but proabably lost of peopel I bo not now who .Im gesing that like 50 000 millionts of people have the desise i vbont now how many people have it but 50 000 millionts if I had it i would gust die cause you cat do any thing.
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