Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge (Kassandra Lumbera)

Nancy Frates, a mom, explains how the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge started. On a family vacation her son Pete broke his wrist. After six months, Pete called his parents explaining that he has found a doctor with a diagnosis for him. So, Pete and his parents went together to the doctors. When they came in, there were four doctors waiting for them. A doc said: “it’s not a broken wrist, is not damage and is not an infection. Pete you have ALS and there is no treatment and cure for it.”

Pete organized a family dinner where he will explain his illness. Pete’s family and friends had been trying to find out any way to help him. Today, Pete is completely paralyze and he can’t speak.

One day when Pete was in NYC said: I’m taking the ALS ice bucket challenge, so he put the bucket over his head and said: I’m nominating… and he send it to Boston. The following days friends and family took this challenge. Pete’s uncle, the webmaster, had been studying how this challenge had globalized. Famous people like Justin Timberlake done the ice bucket challenge. Youtube has reported that over a hundred and fifty countries have posted videos of the challenge and Facebook has 2.5 million.

Nowadays they had recollect one hundred twenty-five million dollars.

Pete has inspired his circle to choose to live in positivity.

Kassandra Lumbera