In MDA, Destiny found the support and community she needed to live fully as a 12-year-old, as a college student and now as a mom to two kids. That’s why she’s been a passionate Muscle Walk fundraiser for the past 15 years, whether she was well enough to walk in the event or not. That’s why she’ll continue participating.
Theresa Cox is committed in both her professional and personal life to working with people living with muscular dystrophy and related neuromuscular diseases.
Bryant and Sarah Krieger’s son Fritz was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in February of this year. Less than a month later, their family, along with dozens of other supporters, were walking to bring strength to life at the Muscle Walk of Phoenix as part of Team Fritz & Friends. Here, on Fritz’s first birthday, Sarah allows us a glimpse inside her thoughts by sharing these emotional and moving entries from her journal.
Learn why five MDA families are equally dedicated to Muscle Walk — and why you should also support this incredible cause.
Tammy Carroll, whose daughter Alexas as SMA type 2, shares the importance of birthdays and the FDA’s approval of Spinraza
Melanie Carson has peered into the Grand Canyon and craned her neck looking up at the giant Redwoods of Northern California. She’s felt the mist of waterfalls in Hawaii and gazed at Yosemite’s Half Dome. She’s done it all, and wants to do more. That’s all while living with a rare type of Limb-girdle muscular . . .
2017 MDA Muscle Walk t-shirt design voting is now live! Now’s your chance to cast your vote for your favorite design for the 2017 MDA Muscle Walk t-shirt! Voting ends midnight on Friday, September 16. Ask your family and friends to vote for their favorite design to help push your selection to the top! The . . .
When I was a junior in high school, my father was diagnosed with ALS. At the time, I didn’t know what it was or what it meant, and Icould hardly imagine that I would make a career working for an organization whose mission is to find treatments and cures for ALS and other related muscle-debilitating diseases. . . .
“November 1, 2011 was the day that everything changed for our family. We were sitting in a room with no windows and seemingly no air to breathe and the news came like a bulldozer: Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle wasting disease with no cure that is 100% fatal. I couldn’t believe it. All I wanted to do . . .
For companies like Casey’s, supporting their community and giving back is not only part of their mission, but it also helps define them as a company. Over the past nine years, Casey’s has supported MDA and the MDA Summer Camp program by raising more than $6.6 million. Their support has helped kids with muscular dystrophy . . .
