{"id":9864,"date":"2024-08-13T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T10:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/?p=9864"},"modified":"2024-08-13T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T10:34:47","slug":"my-als-journey-13-n-next-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/my-als-journey-13-n-next-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"My ALS Journey (13\/n): Next Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ice Bucket Challenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ice.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9872\" style=\"width:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ice.png 474w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ice-183x300.png 183w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ice-429x705.png 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Ice Bucket Challenge<\/strong>, sometimes called the <strong>ALS Ice Bucket Challenge<\/strong>, is an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person&#8217;s head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis\">amyotrophic lateral sclerosis<\/a> (ALS, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motor_neuron_disease\">motor neuron disease<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Gehrig\">Lou Gehrig<\/a>&#8216;s disease) and encourage donations to research. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you want to watch the entire video or need more information, here is the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nachrichten.als\/videos\/1295075268565060\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nachrichten.als\/videos\/1295075268565060<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to announce that after 10 years the  Ice Bucket Challenge seems to be revived.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <strong>Ice Bucket Challenge<\/strong> from Prof. Dr. Thomas Meyer, head of the ALS outpatient clinic, which he founded at the Charit\u00e9 Berlin in January 2002. I highly appreciate his work. Therefore, the money for the last donation campaign went to Charit\u00e9 Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Classes to Mentoring<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fourSquare.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fourSquare.png 700w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fourSquare-300x284.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sad to say that in 2025, I will no longer offer three-day classes. Due to my ALS, this is too exhausting for me. But I will enforce my Mentoring. Mentoring is way more impactful than classes. Therefore, I&#8217;m happy I can provide Mentoring for you in the following years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you still want a class, please call me: at <a href=\"mailto:rainer.grimm@ModernesCpp.de\">rainer.grimm@ModernesCpp.de<\/a>. We will find a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"773\" height=\"1030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pepi-773x1030.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9871\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pepi-773x1030.jpg 773w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pepi-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pepi-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pepi-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pepi-1125x1500.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pepi-529x705.jpg 529w, https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/pepi.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move Semantics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine months after the ALS diagonals, we solved almost all the changes\u2014or, I should say, Beatrix solved them. But there&#8217;s always a new challenge. I cannot leave my apartment and have been outside for the last eight months. We need another car that I can drive in directly with my electric wheelchair. I want to visit friends, go to beer gardens, or give nearby talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may wonder, why I have a cat picture here. This is Pepi, our cat. She stays, out of solidarity, also inside our apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice Bucket Challenge The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person&#8217;s head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as motor neuron disease or Lou Gehrig&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-als"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9864"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9880,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions\/9880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}