Link to the MS Website

Here is the link to the MS Website, specifically the team's page (acureforCarmel).

From this website you can either register to walk on Saturday April 10 or make a donation!

Thanks for your interest and support in finding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis:)

http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Walk/UTUWalkEvents?px=4846177&pg=personal&fr_id=13430&et=ZgKOFNo3g68d2aTmjHyJYg..&s_tafId=146226

I posted a status on Facebook about this year's walk so hopefully the site gets more visitors!!

I am optimistic about getting to the $1000 goal! I have ideas on how to reach that goal, but I am always open to new ideas. If I can get a large enough team together to walk, I think I could get some businesses to donate money, possibly making t-shirts and putting their logos on it, and wearing them the day of the walk. Although donations are wonderful, and raising money is the main goal of the event, walking with the team means a lot!

For anyone who knows my mother, Carmel, knows how genuinely wonderful she is. She has been through a lot of trials in this life and has handled them with the upmost faith, patience, and grace. She has yet to let anything kick her down, including MS. She is a professor, and when not teaching, is doing research on how MS and other chronic illnesses affect young mothers; like it affected her (she has had MS since I was born but was not diagnosed until I was 11 years old). And although I do this walk (this is our 3rd year!!) for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of people that suffer from it, I have to admit my motivation is selfish - I do it for my mother. I am not naive and realize that it may be years and years before there is a cure. Possibly past both my mother's and my lifetime. But wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a cure found in our lifetimes? I am not a scientist or doctor, I don't have the potential to actually find the cure. Raising money, spreading awareness, and giving support to those with the disease is all I can do for now.

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

If you have any questions or are interested you can email me at katherine.white@aggiemail.usu.edu.

Thanks:)

-Katie

MS Walk 2010.

Happy 2010!! I realized yesterday that we are a little less than 2 months away from the Ogden 2010 MS Walk.

The walk will be held on April 10, at the Lorin Farr Park on Gramercy Ave, in downtown Ogden.

My goal for this year is to raise $1000. Last year we raised $250 and that was pretty much all last minute!!! With a head start we can do so much more!