For many years, Robert Moore hid a tough diagnosis: multiple sclerosis. Next week, though, the two-time CALS alumnus will be front and center in raising awareness of disease.<\/p>\n
He plans to run 150 miles across Pennsylvania in support of a cure — and in hopes that his story might help others.<\/p>\n
Moore\u2019s run is part of the MS Run the US<\/a> — a fundraising relay of 18 runners that crosses 3,100 miles from Los Angeles to New York City. Moore will run the equivalent of a marathon a day for six days, from Brookville to Sunbury, from July 29 to Aug. 3.<\/p>\n Moore was diagnosed with MS in 2008 while he was a student at NC State. His face began going numb, and tests showed he had lesions in his brain.<\/p>\n He had a vague idea of what he might be in for: The only people he knew who had MS were in wheelchairs, and his doctors couldn\u2019t give a definitive prognosis. MS causes damage to the body\u2019s central nervous system, but symptoms vary from person to person, ranging from pain and fatigue to impaired coordination and vision loss.<\/p>\n \u201cI had it in my mind to just keep moving as much as I could,\u201d he recalls. \u201cSince then, I\u2019ve learned that just because you have MS does not mean that you\u2019re bound to a wheelchair. Everybody\u2019s experience with MS is different.\u201d<\/p>\n Moore was determined not to let the diagnosis interfere with his goals: He went on to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in soil science in 2009 and a bachelor\u2019s in agricultural engineering two years later. Then he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service as an engineer.<\/p>\n Along the way, he took up running and cycling. Fear, he says, was his motivator. But now, he runs for other reasons.<\/p>\n \u201cI no longer run for fear of losing my mobility, but for the enjoyment and challenge it provides,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n His long-term goals include running a marathon in every state in the continental United States (he\u2019s up to 11 already) and to qualify for the Boston Marathon.<\/p>\n But, as he writes on one marathon website, in the end, it\u2019s about staying healthy and giving others hope.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m running \u2026 to inspire those that have been recently diagnosed or are struggling,\u201d he writes. \u201cI want to show that a diagnosis of MS is not an end-all, but an opportunity to open new doors.\u201d<\/p>\n To follow Moore\u2019s progress in the MS Run the US or to contribute, check out his Facebook page<\/a><\/em>. You can also support the cause on this fundraising page<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n This post was originally published<\/a> in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences News.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false,"raw":"For many years, Robert Moore hid a tough diagnosis: multiple sclerosis. Next week, though, the two-time CALS alumnus will be front and center in raising awareness of disease.\r\n\r\nHe plans to run 150 miles across Pennsylvania in support of a cure -- and in hopes that his story might help others.\r\n\r\nMoore\u2019s run is part of the MS Run the US<\/a> -- a fundraising relay of 18 runners that crosses 3,100 miles from Los Angeles to New York City. Moore will run the equivalent of a marathon a day for six days, from Brookville to Sunbury, from July 29 to Aug. 3.\r\n CALS alumnus Robert Moore will face mountains and the summer heat to run the equivalent of six marathons in six days. His goal: raising awareness of multiple sclerosis, a disease he\u2019s dealt with since he was a student at NC State 10 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"ncstate_wire","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-_from-newswire-collection-19"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11772,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/11772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘Everybody’s experience with MS is different’<\/h3>\n
'Everybody's experience with MS is different'<\/h3>\r\nMoore was diagnosed with MS in 2008 while he was a student at NC State. His face began going numb, and tests showed he had lesions in his brain.\r\n\r\nHe had a vague idea of what he might be in for: The only people he knew who had MS were in wheelchairs, and his doctors couldn\u2019t give a definitive prognosis. MS causes damage to the body\u2019s central nervous system, but symptoms vary from person to person, ranging from pain and fatigue to impaired coordination and vision loss.\r\n\r\n\u201cI had it in my mind to just keep moving as much as I could,\u201d he recalls. \u201cSince then, I\u2019ve learned that just because you have MS does not mean that you\u2019re bound to a wheelchair. Everybody\u2019s experience with MS is different.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMoore was determined not to let the diagnosis interfere with his goals: He went on to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in soil science in 2009 and a bachelor\u2019s in agricultural engineering two years later. Then he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service as an engineer.\r\n\r\nAlong the way, he took up running and cycling. Fear, he says, was his motivator. But now, he runs for other reasons.\r\n\r\n\u201cI no longer run for fear of losing my mobility, but for the enjoyment and challenge it provides,\u201d he says.\r\n\r\nHis long-term goals include running a marathon in every state in the continental United States (he\u2019s up to 11 already) and to qualify for the Boston Marathon.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBut, as he writes on one marathon website, in the end, it\u2019s about staying healthy and giving others hope.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019m running \u2026 to inspire those that have been recently diagnosed or are struggling,\u201d he writes. \u201cI want to show that a diagnosis of MS is not an end-all, but an opportunity to open new doors.\u201d\r\n\r\nTo follow Moore\u2019s progress in the MS Run the US or to contribute, check out his Facebook page<\/a><\/em>. You can also support the cause on this fundraising page<\/a>. <\/em>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"