Hi y'all
This morning I woke up with a vivid dream that lingered for several hours. I dreamed about my mom and her ALS and what I could do about it. It was an intense dream like someone shouting in my face for hours on end. I felt like I had to do SOMETHING. Don't just be a bystander watching her body go through the stages of ALS and do nothing. I can't do that. I have to do something. This horrible disease is claiming my sweet and beautiful mother. Do something....anything...that is the feeling I woke up with.
As I made my way from home to the dentist office I kept seeing the huge ALS campaign posters through the city and with each poster I got more angry. When ALS enters your family the posters you see with faces of people asking you to fight for them since it is too late for them, that is when you realize that each and every face on these posters is your family member. In my case it is my mom. And thus I decided that I AM DECLARING WAR ON ALS. This disease has to die! It is an alien invader and it has to be terminated. NOW! So...what to do? RUN! That is it. My blog is called adventures of a MARATHON girl yet I have never ever run a full one. Guess what?
This year I will run a FULL MARATHON. Yes I will. I know half of you will probably think I'm out of my mind, the other half will read this and be total cynics thinking I can't pull it off anyway. Some might actually be worried about my health thinking 'you're not skinny enough and running a full will do a number on your body' Let me tell you this: You think I don't have these doubts? That I don't shit my pants (excuse le mot) just thinking about it? Hell yeah I do! I'm scared beyond believe but you know what? I need to do something and if my body can run half a marathon in San Francisco than I'm sure I can run a full one (though not in SF) too.
My mom, my beautiful, loving, caring and awesome mom who deserves so much better than this life is giving her, that mom, my mom deserves a fighting change. And if not for her than all the others out there deserve someone who makes it their business to fight for them. So I am making it my business and I'm running a full marathon this year while fundraising for scientific research on ALS.
My fundraiser page and the marathon I'm going to run will soon be revealed but for now I have told y'all. I have told the world. I am doing this. I DECLARE WAR ON ALS!! will you fight by my side? Donate, cheer me on, believe in me or kick my ass when I forget to believe in me? I need you.
Until we read again, as always,
Love Marlies
This morning I woke up with a vivid dream that lingered for several hours. I dreamed about my mom and her ALS and what I could do about it. It was an intense dream like someone shouting in my face for hours on end. I felt like I had to do SOMETHING. Don't just be a bystander watching her body go through the stages of ALS and do nothing. I can't do that. I have to do something. This horrible disease is claiming my sweet and beautiful mother. Do something....anything...that is the feeling I woke up with.
As I made my way from home to the dentist office I kept seeing the huge ALS campaign posters through the city and with each poster I got more angry. When ALS enters your family the posters you see with faces of people asking you to fight for them since it is too late for them, that is when you realize that each and every face on these posters is your family member. In my case it is my mom. And thus I decided that I AM DECLARING WAR ON ALS. This disease has to die! It is an alien invader and it has to be terminated. NOW! So...what to do? RUN! That is it. My blog is called adventures of a MARATHON girl yet I have never ever run a full one. Guess what?
This year I will run a FULL MARATHON. Yes I will. I know half of you will probably think I'm out of my mind, the other half will read this and be total cynics thinking I can't pull it off anyway. Some might actually be worried about my health thinking 'you're not skinny enough and running a full will do a number on your body' Let me tell you this: You think I don't have these doubts? That I don't shit my pants (excuse le mot) just thinking about it? Hell yeah I do! I'm scared beyond believe but you know what? I need to do something and if my body can run half a marathon in San Francisco than I'm sure I can run a full one (though not in SF) too.
My mom, my beautiful, loving, caring and awesome mom who deserves so much better than this life is giving her, that mom, my mom deserves a fighting change. And if not for her than all the others out there deserve someone who makes it their business to fight for them. So I am making it my business and I'm running a full marathon this year while fundraising for scientific research on ALS.
My fundraiser page and the marathon I'm going to run will soon be revealed but for now I have told y'all. I have told the world. I am doing this. I DECLARE WAR ON ALS!! will you fight by my side? Donate, cheer me on, believe in me or kick my ass when I forget to believe in me? I need you.
Until we read again, as always,
Love Marlies
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