Nancy Frates: Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge
南希·弗莱特: 开启冰桶挑战的母亲
Nancy Frates and her family have raised a projected $160 million for ALS research in 2014. How? They kicked off the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to honor 29-year-old Pete Frates. Full bio
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the bottom of our hearts,
go on a family vacation.
Boston College, baseball,
professionally in Europe,
group insurance, he also joined us.
也加入了我们
me and he just said,
is just not my passion."
I'm living up to my potential.
oh by the way, Mom,
that I play for made the playoffs,
because I can't let my team down.
因为我不能让我的队友失望
left the family vacation —
followed four days later
四天以后我们也跟去了
Pete's at the plate,
and me, and he said,
doctor's appointment with me?"
find out what happened to the wrist.
neurologist's office, sat down,
been looking at all the tests,
it's not a sprained wrist,
elimination going up,
27-year-old kid, and said,
tell a 27-year-old this:
80-year-old father had ALS.
他80岁的父亲得了这个病
doctor, and we said, "ALS?
我们开始治疗吧。
said, "Mr. and Mrs. Frates,
“ Frates先生,Frates夫人
and there's no cure."
已有75年
in the progress against ALS.
and brought her home,
having a family dinner,
cooking dinner that night.
we were his new team.
no wallowing, people."
we have to change the world.
of philanthropists like Bill Gates."
were given our directive.
our brothers and sisters
creating Team Frate Train.
apartment in Charlestown
of Pete and be his caregiver."
classmates, teammates,
intersecting with one another,
research summit for advocacy.
speech, there was a panel,
pharmaceutical executives
I'm listening to them
went straight over my head.
class I ever could.
and I was listening to them,
"I, I do this, I do that,"
unfamiliarity between them.
lot of collaboration going on here.
follow-up and the accountability?
after you leave this room?"
of eyes just staring at me.
the elephant in the room.
the whole ALS community.
data comes back: no efficacy.
have therapies overseas,
pulled out from under us.
be taken away from me,
runs at baseball fields.
eventually is going to give out
to put him on a ventilator or not.
parts, but the brain stays intact.
但大脑却是完好的
inspirational speech comes,
an article in the Bleacher Report.
在Bleacher Report上发表一篇文章
wrote it using his eye gaze technology.
因为这篇文章是他用眼睛凝视技术写的
the ice started to fall.
roommate in New York City,
ALS patient known in New York,
另一名纽约知名的渐冻人患者
Ice Bucket Challenge,"
And he sent it up to Boston.
of days, our news feed
the nice thing about Facebook
因为脸书有个优点
human Bloody Mary.
Dave, the webmaster,
and it says, "Nancy,
上面写着,“Nancy,
every time Pete's website
Dave叔叔会收到提示
phone was blowing up.
would lead to funding,
only take a couple of days.
501(c)(3)s on Pete's website,
放到Pete的网站上
that our neighbor next door
need food in there."
Entertainment Tonight,
和 爱尔兰广播电视局
glacier video, incredible.
was a real A-list celebrity.
ones are, and their families'?
underfunded "rare" disease,
saying it over and over: "ALS, ALS."
“渐冻人症 渐冻人症”
of stats, shall we?
it'll be 160 million dollars.
that they've been developing.
Ice Bucket Challenges for ALS.
what it was like in my house.
was like around here."
front of philanthropists like Bill Gates,
ice water over your head,
I'd like you to remember.
over my head every day?
positive and proactive.
middle of the challenge
the mental toughness
teammates in the dugout,
up there hanging it up.
right into his stomach.
what the reality of this is,
want to leave you with:
and leading his whole life.
has come back to him.
right now and knows why he's here.
and last but not least
the night of diagnosis is now his wife,
现在是他的妻子了
granddaughter, Lucy Fitzgerald Frates.
Lucy Fitzgerald Frates
Pete's words of inspiration
coworkers and teammates.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nancy Frates - Mother + ALS AdvocateNancy Frates and her family have raised a projected $160 million for ALS research in 2014. How? They kicked off the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to honor 29-year-old Pete Frates.
Why you should listen
When Nancy Frates’ son was diagnosed with ALS in 2012, she was confused. Pete was a 27-year-old athlete and the only people she’d ever known with this disease were elderly already. Ever since that life-changing moment, she and her family have found their sense of purpose in working tirelessly to raise awareness about ALS and to stimulate funding for research. Because it’s been 75 years since Lou Gehrig delivered his famed farewell speech, and no treatment or cure has been found. This, says Nancy Frates, is unacceptable.
This July, Pete Frates inspired the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which quickly became a viral fundraising phenomenon. The challenge inspired people across the United States and world to dump a bucket of ice on their head and pass the challenge on to three friends. In all, The ALS Association projects that the challenge will have raised $160 million for research by the end of 2014.
Pete Frates is now paralyzed and mute—he speaks to the world through eye gazer technology and through his family. They all remain hopeful for progress in treating this terrible disease.
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