Brad and Makenna were nominated by our sweet neighbors - Phil Koch and Maddie Koch. They whole heartedly accepted the challenge, in fact Makenna has been watching videos of everyone else's challenges tonight in preparation.
They nominate Cliffy Janssen (Papa) and cousins (Drew, Madison and Bryce-man)
I'll admit I knew little about this disease before all this awareness and I'm thankful that this campaign is doing such a great job educating! Maddie's grandpa (Phil's dad) passed away from this horrible disease 2 years ago so I know the cause is near and dear to their hearts. Rather than just accept the challenge and move on, we'd like to donate to the cause as well.
As many of you know, these sweet kiddos wouldn't be here without the miracle of embryo adoption.
Makenna (and our angel baby)
Alex
As a result, we try hard to make sure any cause we are donating to doesn't use embryos for their research. We are thankful that many organizations are finding that adult stem cells are just as, if not more useful, than embryonic stem cells and we've found a study that is being done at the Mayo Clinic that uses adult stem cells and have decided to donate here:
http://www.mayo.edu/research/labs/regenerative-neurobiology/projects/therapy-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-als
Let's beat this ugly disease!!
*Who noticed Alex crawling away towards the neighbor's dog in this video?!?! LoL!
