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This Father With ALS Doing The Ice Bucket Challenge With His Daughter Is By Far The Best One You’ll See

“Though this disease has impaired his ability to walk, move, and talk, his brain is unaffected.Therefore, his desire to partake in ridiculous things is still very much prevalent.” BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () { if (BF_STATIC.bf_test_mode) localStorage.setItem(‘posted_date’, 1407974089); }); BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () {…

Mitt Romney Took The Ice Bucket Challenge And It’s The Most Mitt Romney Thing Ever

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TIL that Weird Al's parents both died on the same day of carbon monoxide poisoning. Only hours later, he performed a concert and started by saying "since my music had helped many of my fans through tough times, maybe it would work for me as well."

TIL that Weird Al’s parents both died on the same day of carbon monoxide poisoning. Only hours later, he performed a concert and started by saying “since my music had helped many of my fans through tough times, maybe it would work for me as well.”

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YSK: The "Ice Bucket Challenge" is to raise awareness and donations to ALS.

YSK: The “Ice Bucket Challenge” is to raise awareness and donations to ALS.

As I write this, I am staring at my dad, who is in the final stages of the disease. At this point he can barely move his left hand and that is all. He requires nearly constant care and can only communicate via eye-tracking software that was given to him by the ALS society. It has someone else's name on it- which means the disease killed that individual, and it is a good decade old. He gets very frustrated using it and still fights to write with his non-dominant hand instead. I'm home visiting for the weekend to help both he and my mom out as she is his primary caregiver. Last night I discovered a handwritten page with "I want a hug" and lost it.

I would post a picture but he hates me seeing him like this, so I'm not even going to ask.

I write this solely to bring awareness to the real reason behind the "challenge". There are doubtlessly other subs where this would be more visible, but I'm more of a lurker than anything.

I have been watching him die for 2 years, and you have a bucket on your head with no idea why.

http://www.alsa.org/news/archive/als-ice-bucket-challenge.html