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"Raising MS Awareness with Every Lake I Swim"
Grant Lake CA - August 9, 2025
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On August 9, 2025 I will be back in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, where I will once again be swimming to Raise MS Awareness.
My inspiration for Sierra Nevada Open Water 4MS came to me in 2014 as I stood on the deck of June Mountain ski lodge over looking the majestic blue-green waters of June and Gull Lakes.
In 2021, I swam both of these lakes. This August 2025, I will be swimming the length of Grant Lake a distance of 2.9 miles, with family & friends supporting me and swimming along side me.
Please, support my foundation Sierra Nevada Open Water 4MS in my swim of Grant Lake in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. - Benefitting Keck Medicine of USC - Multiple Sclerosis Care Clinic and all of us living with MS.
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The donations raised this year swimming the length of Grant Lake will directly support and fund the Second Annual MS patient/caregiver forum envisioned by Dr. Lilyana Amezcua - Head of the Multiple Sclerosis comprehensive care and research center at Keck Medicine of USC.
This is an educational forum for MS patients and their loved covering the latest updates and advances in MS research and patient care. The forum will be held at the USC Keck
School of Medicine’s Health Sciences Campus. The forum will also be accessible
on a live Zoom feed, and include an opportunity for patients and caregivers to ask
questions of the panel of experts, comprised of USC’s MS Dr's, MS specialists, in
addition to myself and the members of the multidisciplinary team such as physical
therapy, occupational therapy and social work.
Donations in Honor of Richard "Dix" Gardner
Thank you in advance for your support. It means the world to me!
"Raising MS Awareness with Every Lake I Swim"
Richard (Dix) Gardner
dix@wheniswim.com
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