ALS Awareness with Jeramey\'s Journey

C1 3 welcome back national als awareness month ultimately geared the them for anyone who's been diagnosed it as a top journey but we do that when here thing to one about the minute jeremy atherton so much for joining of having the comic cited that we get someone should talk about my you are you are diagnosed with als when and what was your reaction will of for your was diagnosed with ms and then finally gotten to see a neurologist to to the time him and so on november was to the shopping four years old..

Did you know anything about a lifetime over the fan of new mom.

I was familiar with it jus because of gary can you sports tonight nothing and is the gleason you know it's a for so familiar with it from that standpoint, but from a personal level on never thought you did that could happen so fast and the changes in my and my body and talk a little that because for folks you may not know what als is some of what you go want will a-list some it's a motor neuron disease.

So basically my signals that come from a brain tumor.

Muscles on the so then just the muscle after the you know and the truck to the point where goes from just my legs marginal hands to my lungs and solons and waiters involved in the of actually getting to the point where i lose control over you blink on the docket mom the largest open house all the time so it it attacks and kills the signals that control your voluntary benefits to something that i like folks might not necessarily know about the disease it out that you startin on profit raising awareness and know about this tell us about the this is called your journey and am of my friends and family get together what you on the side of way here would be me, so we start a nonprofit and basically release funds benefits and then holding rallies and mom warner bros.

Are in real trouble through 14 states to raise awareness on how to stop it in every state at the map right that we just got had and the debits of how it originally started her to the map from the dollars really but and that i also review that will end up in alaska and then come back down through the states and then my goal is to get every state this in a years time and appointed t raise awareness, and you are doing that with an event locall on saturday may just not this is be at home depot the communities very involved with it and the rough car shows and rifles and silent auctions and it's is just you know get to raise awareness and that's what it's about and it's a kickoff for the national to start june 1 on the details are on the screen here or you we will post this of course on our website and honor the page abc 36 thank you for coming and jeremy