{"id":6487,"date":"2018-04-27T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T08:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laforcedmd.com\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2022-05-03T18:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:17:15","slug":"john-davidson-godfather-dmd-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laforcedmd.com\/en\/john-davidson-godfather-dmd-community\/","title":{"rendered":"John Davidson, godfather of the DMD community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the story of John Davidson going the distance for his son Jesse and ends up raising millions for new research.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\u00a0Going the distance to raise millions<\/h3>\n

Sherene Davidson :\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u201cWhen we first started, there was barely anything to fund because there just was nothing out there that people were doing.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In 1986, the Davidson family learned their son Jesse had Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). They had never heard the expression before. The diagnosis literally flipped their world upside down. They knew little about science and research, but they figured quickly it was their only hope. When Jesse got to an age where his mother, Sherene, had to do the lifting because he was losing mobility, John switched from golfing to walking to stay in shape so he could spend more time with his family. His walks were getting longer and longer, so an idea came to him. Maybe he could walk across Ontario with Jesse, shake some hands, raise funds and get people talking about DMD. He did!\u00a0 The walk across Ontario was so successful that he decided soon after that to walk across Canada solo. The sum of these two challenges leads to the rise an organization called \u201cJesse\u2019s Journey.\u201d In the course of the past twenty years, John Davidson and Jesse\u2019s Journey have raised over 9 million dollars.<\/p>\n

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