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Melissa takes the MND Ice Bucket Challenge.

8/22/2014

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Australia is known around the world for pitching in and lending a hand in times of need and we are one of the most charitable countries in the world. It is because of this that I am LOVING watching the videos of Australians getting buckets of ice cold water poured on them as part of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. 

I had been nominated to do the Ice Bucket Challenge and was chicken at first so decided to get involved with it by making a donation, but I was a little stunned by what I discovered when I looked into it. ALS (known as Lou Gehrig's Disease in the U.S.) is actually called something completely different here in Australia... We've all heard of MND (Motor Neurone Disease) right?

I felt a little ignorant as I had never looked into it enough or seeked awareness to know the lack of difference between the two, but once I learned that they are one in the same, I was even more drawn to the cause as MND actually runs in my family. So, I am taking the Ice Bucket Challenge myself, and we here at LMA are also going to donate $200 to MND Australia. 

I will also take the time now to tell you who I am going to nominate to also do the challenge AND donate any extra cash they have...

MICHELLE HAYNES from FOWLERS LIVE
RYAN WINTER from THE GOV
RODNEY MAGAZINOVIC from MIX.1023
CHRIS MARIC from MARIC MEDIA
JANINE MORCOS from SOUNDWAVE TOURING

You each have 48 hours to complete the MND Ice Bucket Challenge, and nominate three 'victims' of your own... Muahahahahaha!

If anyone else wants to get involved, challenge your friends, make a donation or even just get some info, check out the MND Australia website here.

Thanks for paying attention!

Melissa Donato
Live Music Adelaide Editor.

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FACTS ABOUT MND

Motor neurone disease (MND) is the name given to a group of diseases in which the nerve cells (neurones) controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow undergo degeneration and die.

Motor function is controlled by the upper motor neurones in the brain that descend to the spinal cord; these neurones activate lower motor neurones.  The lower motor neurones exit the spinal cord and directly activate muscles.  With no nerves to activate them, muscles gradually weaken and waste. MND can affect a person’s ability to walk, speak, swallow and breathe.

MND is a progressive, terminal neurological disease


There is no known cure and no effective treatment for MND 


Each day in Australia two people die from MND 


Each day in Australia two people are diagnosed with MND 


People with MND progressively lose the use of their limbs and ability to speak, swallow and breathe, whilst their mind and senses usually remain intact


Average life expectancy is 27 months 


An estimated 1,900 people have MND in Australia 


For every person diagnosed with MND it is estimated that a further 14 members of their family and their friends will live with the effect of MND forever 
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