MS Patient Takes Last Steps In Front Of Cheering Crowd
BOSTON (CBS) - If you knew you could only take a few more steps in your lifetime, where would you walk your last walk? A Worcester woman, struggling with multiple sclerosis set her sights on the MS Society's annual three day 50-mile fundraising walk.
When Nicole Monfredo's doctors told her she can't walk anymore, she wasn't quite ready to stop. Last weekend, she pushed herself for more than 20 miles through the Challenge Walk in a wheelchair. Then, with the help of friends, she took her last steps over the finish line.
"Hearing all those hundreds of people, behind you, the people in front of you, the people holding me up, I knew that they weren't going to let me fall," said Monfredo. "Yes it was me taking those steps, but in my mind, there are hundreds and thousands of people that are just like me, that have their own walks and their own finish lines."
Monfredo's walk raises more than a million dollars for the National MS Society. Now that she's accomplished that goal, what's her next step? She says getting up every morning is an accomplishment. "Every day that you get up, you've beat it. I mean, yeah, you have it, but you've still beat it. You've still gotten up and you're still living your life. And to me that's huge."