MS Walk 2020

Today, April 7th, marks 3 years since I left the hospital after my MS diagnosis. April 7 is also the day after my oldest son's birthday and the day before mine and my nieces. My younger son's birthday is also in April, on the 16th. We did not expect to spend our birthdays in isolation , but here we are.

It was also right around this time 3 years ago that I discovered the MS walk! I just happened to be scrolling on my phone and there it was, right away I knew I was doing it!! I mentioned participating to Trevor and our boys and they were all on board, as well as my sister-in-law.

We walked in 2017 and 2018 (Taylor and I were speakers at this one), missed 2019 due to a family function but my boys still hosted their bake sale in support of the MS society. To date I think our team has raised around $5000!!

This year though, things are looking a little different due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
With the schools being closed there was no school bake sale, our grocery store bake sale has also been cancelled for obvious reasons as well. Normally my boys and I are busy creating items to sell or auction off in support of our walk team but with social distancing and trying hard not to share germs we haven't been able to do a lot to raise funds. We knew that things would be different this time, we just weren't sure how different...we're still not 100% sure!

As of yesterday when I received a call from my local MS Society to tell me that the physical walk has been cancelled! While I absolutely understand this decision, it definitely makes me sad! This walk was the first thing I did after my diagnosis that made me feel like I could actually do something about this monster that has taken over my body, and now that is gone too!

While I'm sad that the physical walk is cancelled I'm being told that a plan is being made to do a virtual walk on May 24th....I'm not sure what that will look like but I'm excited to see what they come up with!

As you read above, Taylor and I spoke at the 2018 walk and this year my family as a whole was asked to speak and tell our story. I'm sure Trevor is happy that he's not going on stage anymore, haha! The MS  Society is still wanting us as guest speakers, we just need to work on how that will look going forward.

So, I am going to continue to fund raise while I wait to hear how this years walk is going to look! If you are able to donate to this cause I will be forever grateful, no amount is too small!! I have linked all of my families walk pages though out this post and we will all be updating our "why we walk" stories shortly!