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Multiple Sclerosis 2010
Multiple Sclerosis fight continues for everyone having the disease including Edward L. Hale, 35, of Carrollton, as he continues to raise awareness for MS and has been for the past several years.
Hale, Carroll County MS Activist, recently attended a Walk MS fund-raising event, April 24, at Price Park in North Canton. Hale raised $540.00 in contributions from co-workers, friends, and family. Hale had walked 16 miles during the cold off and on rainy day as he was out to complete a mission. The mission was walking for people, including himself, diagnosed with MS in the past, the present, and for the people in the future that will be diagnosed. Hale is hoping a cure will be found for the MS disease.
MS is an unpredictable, often disabling, disease of the central nervous system. It interrupts flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. Lesions, which are the characteristic feature of MS, are areas of inflammation in the central nervous system in which neurons have been stripped of myelin, an insulating protein. Patient symptoms vary and range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis.
MS stops people from moving by attacking myelin that protects normal nerve tissue. The damage keeps people from moving smoothly, both inside and out. Many have trouble imagining what their lives would be without the ability to move. To this day there is no cure for the disease. It affects more than 400,000 people in the United States including children and adults.
Recently, Hale took the initiative to attend the Carroll County Commissioners meeting Feb 25. Hale spoke with them regarding MS and asked they accepted a proclamation he constructed to recognize in Carroll County that March is MS Awareness Month in the State of Ohio as signed into law by former Gov. Robert Taft on March 2, 2006. Commissioners Hawk and Wheaton accepted by signing the proclamation and thanked him for enlightening them on the MS disease. Commissioners received an orange basket along with National Multiple Sclerosis Society tote bags. At this point Hale has not located any other county in Ohio that recognizes March as MS Awarness Month
Hale was diagnosed with MS in 2006 and resides in Lee Township with his wife and two daughters. As a person with the disease he states "I've learned that while life indeed can throw us curves, it's our reaction to those curves that define who we are and help us build character. MS will not keep me down in faith or spirt, it will fuel the fire for me to conquer what I can and try to conquer other things that may seem impossible." Hale continues to keep moving forward to raise awareness and would hope to see a cure in the future.
** Photos provided by Edward L. Hale from the Walk MS event in North Canton. **
Multiple Sclerosis 2010
Multiple Sclerosis fight continues for everyone having the disease including Edward L. Hale, 35, of Carrollton, as he continues to raise awareness for MS and has been for the past several years.
Hale, Carroll County MS Activist, recently attended a Walk MS fund-raising event, April 24, at Price Park in North Canton. Hale raised $540.00 in contributions from co-workers, friends, and family. Hale had walked 16 miles during the cold off and on rainy day as he was out to complete a mission. The mission was walking for people, including himself, diagnosed with MS in the past, the present, and for the people in the future that will be diagnosed. Hale is hoping a cure will be found for the MS disease.
MS is an unpredictable, often disabling, disease of the central nervous system. It interrupts flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. Lesions, which are the characteristic feature of MS, are areas of inflammation in the central nervous system in which neurons have been stripped of myelin, an insulating protein. Patient symptoms vary and range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis.
MS stops people from moving by attacking myelin that protects normal nerve tissue. The damage keeps people from moving smoothly, both inside and out. Many have trouble imagining what their lives would be without the ability to move. To this day there is no cure for the disease. It affects more than 400,000 people in the United States including children and adults.
Recently, Hale took the initiative to attend the Carroll County Commissioners meeting Feb 25. Hale spoke with them regarding MS and asked they accepted a proclamation he constructed to recognize in Carroll County that March is MS Awareness Month in the State of Ohio as signed into law by former Gov. Robert Taft on March 2, 2006. Commissioners Hawk and Wheaton accepted by signing the proclamation and thanked him for enlightening them on the MS disease. Commissioners received an orange basket along with National Multiple Sclerosis Society tote bags. At this point Hale has not located any other county in Ohio that recognizes March as MS Awarness Month
Hale was diagnosed with MS in 2006 and resides in Lee Township with his wife and two daughters. As a person with the disease he states "I've learned that while life indeed can throw us curves, it's our reaction to those curves that define who we are and help us build character. MS will not keep me down in faith or spirt, it will fuel the fire for me to conquer what I can and try to conquer other things that may seem impossible." Hale continues to keep moving forward to raise awareness and would hope to see a cure in the future.
** Photos provided by Edward L. Hale from the Walk MS event in North Canton. **