This is my 21st year to ride and raise funds for this crippling disease. Honestly I thought back in 1990 when I first rode for MS in their Bike 150 weekends that we'd have this central nervous system disease wiped off the face of the Earth. However, while tremendous success has been made to assist those with MS, a cure still eludes us.
Our family has no one who has suffered from MS, but I have many great friends who have been impacted by it in one way or anotrher. A fantastic school aide and friend of mine had to take early retirement because she had lost her ability to use her legs; a young teacher went through leg surgery thinking she had injured herself running for exercise only to learn it was the start of MS; the grandfather of the young lady where I have my hair cut is confined to a wheelchair and depends on others and he is my age; a wife of my brother's baseball coach suffered a horrible crippling death at the hands of MS; and the mother of an associate and friend of mine died due to complications as a result of her MS. All great people who suffer, and some who died, at too young of age, from Multiple Sclerosis.
If you are reading this and really want to make a difference in the lives of young people, then please donate to MS. You can go to the National Multiple Sclerosis web site, look for Ohio Valley Chapter, and find me as a pareticipant in the Bike MS 150 which is an event that the local chapter holds every year. While I will not be riding in that event, I have registered for it and am substituting the 4,250 mile coast to coast ride for the MS 150 bike ride to be held Augusy 28-29.
You can also send a check to Tom Moffitt (Make it out to National MS Society) and mail it to 7417 Chateauguat Drive, Hamilton, Ohio 45011. Please put in the note section: Moffitt MS150.
Help me to make a difference in this world...dontate to MS Society. The feeling is great to know that together we can make a difference for others.
Thank you,
Tom
No comments:
Post a Comment