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This blog is about a new walk with my husband Rick & I since he was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig's Disease or MND (Motor Neuron Disease) on February 1, 2008.

This blog was started as a way to keep our family and friends and anyone else interested in our battle with ALS updated.
So as you read this blog please keep us in your hearts and prayers.

The blog starts from the most current to the oldest entry. Rick has started to blog now also as of April 1,2008 so this site has become officially "our blog".

My dearest husband Rick passed away on August 13, 2010,
2 1/2 yrs after diagnosis. Now I have to learn how to walk in the courage, strength and bravery that he did in fighting this disease. He promised me he would be waiting for me in eternity on a park bench. Together Forever!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Rick and Joan here...Rain, or snow???? Yep.....snow! but Katie's ALS Fundraiser Garage Sale goes on....yippeeeeee!!!!!

Our six yr old grand daughter had a dream last winter that she wanted to have a garage sale to raise money for ALS to help find a cure for the disease, and help supply equipment to ALS patients.

She won the hearts of us all when she persisted even this Spring that she still wanted to go ahead with it. Her big sister Tia who tirelessly worked on the day of the sale, Dad and Mom who supported their little girl's dream, family and friends came along side to make this happen!

On the day of the sale...it SNOWED!!! There she sat shivering away and sitting at the table with her sister in their winter clothes. She was selling her lemonade as a garage sale has to have lemonade! Never could we have imagined how her goal of $100.00 would be exceeded! We decided that there would be NO prices on anything but that people could pay what they deemed fair. Hot Dogs, coffee, lemonade and some hot chili were also available.


Katie had so much support from the community, friends and family!


Everyone opened their hearts and wallets to make the day more of a sucess than any one of us could have imagined!


When the dust cleared and a very tired bunch of us added it all up we found that over $1,000.00 had been raised and the money will be all going to the ALS Society of MB. WOW!!!!! We are so proud of our grand girls who both withstood the cold and worked so hard to make this happen!!!!