How to handle adversity like a champion with Mark Kirton on the Complete Sports Media Podcast

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This is a very special conversation with a very remarkable guy. Mark Kirton forged his early life in pro hockey and we discuss many aspects at length. He played 520 AHL games that he is even more proud of than the 280 NHL games.

 

His second career was as a top real estate agent as he won awards and became very successful. Life had really been dealing him a great hand as well as his career success and he had a great marriage and three healthy kids. Life took an unexpected turn when he went on a holiday to the Bahamas and he felt a twitch in his right arm then more and more symptoms started happening as the months went on. He decided to try and get a diagnosis on what was happening to his health. After three years and some mis-diagnosis and no answers he and his family were dealt a terrible blow as he was told he had ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. The doctor told them that the outcome is that typically people live 2 to 5 years with this before they succumb to it. Mark wants to be on the long end of that scale and even last much longer than that. He has become a crusader and he has raised a lot of money and awareness for this affliction. His schedule has filled up with appearances like this and we really appreciated his valuable time.

 

There are a lot of ways you can help this cause and people like Mark so please give up some of your valuable time and get behind a cause like this. If you want to donate directly to the places that Mark wants to help out just go to twitter @KirtsSpeaksALS for the details. His twitter campaign leading up to June 2nd LOU GEHRIG DAY and June 20TH END ALS WALK during ALS AWARENESS MONTH has been a huge success so far. They have already raised over $75K in 3 weeks for ALS CANADA so you can contribute to them or ALS Action Canada. The upcoming event that happens on June 20th is a virtual walk for a cure is something that could really use our help to get behind.

 

So many former teamates and hockey people have been amazing and sent Mark videos supporting him and there are many to see here https://twitter.com/i/status/13969343... and then click on PROFILE to see a couple dozen short ALS Awareness videos. As you will see the response has been phenomenal.

 

SUNNYBROOK ALS RESEARCH DONATION LINK is https://bit.ly/3fuzNr

 

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