LETTERS

Still time to join team and fight ALS

Posted 9/22/15

To the Editor:

On September 20 the Rhode Island ALS Association sponsored the Walk to Defeat ALS to support ALS research and patient services.

Short for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, or …

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LETTERS

Still time to join team and fight ALS

Posted

To the Editor:

On September 20 the Rhode Island ALS Association sponsored the Walk to Defeat ALS to support ALS research and patient services.

Short for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is an illness that slowly weakens patients’ muscles until they are almost completely paralyzed. The disease can also prevent talking, chewing, drinking and even breathing, among other essential functions.

Every year, family and friends walk in memory of my father, Peter Cate, who passed away in 2009 after a four-year struggle with ALS. We organized our spunky walk team, The Flying Flapdoodles, in 2006 and continue to keep Dad’s spirit alive through the annual ALS walk.

Even though the walk is over, you can still mail a check to the RI ALS Association at 2374 Post Road, Suite 103, Warwick, RI, or visit the walk website at www.walkri.org. From there you can click on “Join a Team,” even if you don’t attend the walk, and follow the steps to donate to our team.

I hope you will join us in making a difference for some special people who need as much love and support as we can give them. Let’s make the 2015 Walk to Defeat ALS the most successful walk ever!

Matt Cate

Team Captain,

The Flying Flapdoodles

Warwick

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  • richardcorrente

    Dear Matt,

    Contact me please. I will give you a donation. I do however, have an interesting suggestion that I would like to discuss with you. Rather than give the money you raise to "research doctors" who would lose their jobs if they found a cure and therefore have a real incentive to NOT find one, I suggest you pool the funds and offer it as a reward to "anyone who finds a cure". In this way you and your group would give a tangible incentive to actually find a cure! In either event please call me at 401-338-9900.

    Thank you and I'm sorry for your loss.

    Sincerely

    Richard Corrente

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