The Christmas Card Campaign: Help Us Fund Research on TM, NMO, ADEM and ON.

If we are going to raise money for research, the vast majority of it is going to come from you and from your friends and family. Why? Because they are the only people in the universe who know about these conditions and they are really the only people who care!  I am not comfortable asking my family for money. I am less comfortable asking my friends for money. I am no different than you. But I have learned to do it, because I have come to accept that this is the only way I can make the difference for Pauline and the so many others of you whom I have come to love and care about so deeply.

I have an idea which I think might make this easier for you to accomplish. I have written a letter and have posted it on our web site. I have included important information about TM and the neuroimmunologic disorders, about the TMA, and why it is important for the TMA to succeed in raising money for research. The letter is created in Word. Since most people have MSWord on their computers, I am encouraging you to personalize this letter. Please include information about how TM or ADEM or NMO have impacted your lives, and why you need for this research to be done.

When you send Christmas cards this year, and every year, please include a copy of this letter in your card. Just fold it and put it into the card.  And, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, you can include the letter with any regular correspondence you have with your family and friends.

Please type the following address into your web browser to find the fundraising letter.
http://www.myelitis.org/fundraisingletter.htm

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the link to this letter in Word.  Once you have the Word file open, you will be able to edit the text to personalize the letter for your family and friends.  Please do this for yourselves and do it for the other children and adults in our community who need this research and the great hope that this research brings for all of us.  

The cost of adding this letter to your cards will be minimal.  The amount of time and energy involved in sending this letter with your cards will be minimal.  The positive impact of sending this letter in your cards can be enormous – for you and for everyone in our community!