[BobbyB]

Looking for happily ever after


WHILE JERRY LEWIS' - telethon captured the television audience over Labor Day weekend in the cause of Muscular Dystrophy, big Bob Willson of Overland, Kans., is fighting his own battle of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Known as ALS it destroys the nerve cells that control movement. Big Bob is a good friend of sons #2 & #3. Mike[#2] sent us an e-mail with a video of Big Bob doing an interview @ Fox 4 news in Kansas City. It shows Bob using his M.U. golf cart that allows him to move due to decreased ambulatory movements. Big Bob is straight up, tall, charming, a smile that takes up the whole face and can chip bull with the best. At 42 he knows Lou Gehrigs is a death sentence and he admits he is frightened but recently was given a ray of hope with the study of the medication lithium. Bob doesn't think his disease his being slowed by this drug but is taking it to hang on for stem cells. That's where he believes the real disease will be cured from. Bob has donated tissue samples for research that one day he believes will lead to a cure for ALS. The studies being done in Italy and at the University of Kansas hospital were too late in helping our own Hawkeye Mel Eliason but hopefully not for Big Bob. He recently retired from his job and will spend time lobbying before Congress in his fight for monies to be appropriated for the cure of Lou Gehrig's. I and the 'tired farmer" petition prayers with a desperate plea attached, not only for him, but for his wife and three young children. This story has bought big rugby players to tears and by the grace of God we want it to have a happy ending: "Where this family will all live WHILE JERRY LEWIS' - telethon captured the television audience over Labor Day weekend in the cause of Muscular Dystrophy, big Bob Willson of Overland, Kans., is fighting his own battle of Lou Gehrig's disease.."


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