Anyone up for a challenge?

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Anyone up for a challenge? I have been thinking about a recent post

by Sue regarding the Co-Cure story and passing of Casey

Fero and the steps that his mother is taking in his honor.

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I also have a son diagnosed with CFS, Lyme and FM who will be 22

next week. Even though he is not as ill as I am currently, I am

constantly talking about things he can do to bolster his immunity

and build the life he and other young adults deserve. I truly

believe that awareness is so vital to the cure for all disease. I

have always been a pro-active, take charge kind of person and to be

couch-confined has been one of the hardest things for me i.e.

feeling like there is nothing that I can contribute anymore.

SO.................

I printed up 50 of the flyers http://www.co-cure.org/flyer_WI.pdf

and my son Bo has offered to post them at the college where he

attends. My daughter-in- law also is a micro-biologist for major

university research hospital and my oldest son also works for a

large corporation so I will be sending them flyers to post around

their home and offices as well. I am also sending a flyer out in

each letter I write this month in a very very small effort to simply

bring awareness to a cause that deserves attention.

So often, I have heard people say, " Oh, I don't know why you are

wasting your time when it is such a drop in the bucket, compared to

the huge contributions needed. " But I truly believe it is like

putting a note in a balloon, and letting it go. It is not whether or

not I believe something important will happen. It is that I feel one

little act of faith will send out a universal energy of awareness

and one step will lead to another. And another and

another...........

So I hope no one will take offense if I challenge the members here,

to print up five or so copies and post them up somewhere. Whether

it be at the doctor's office or the post office. or the electric

pole at the end of your street. Take that step with me?

I will not wait for a celebrity to go before Congress to make

others aware there is a terrible illness out there. Generations do

not have to be forfeited whenever new diseases emerge. Ignorance

shouldn't be fatal. Just because we are not all seen, doesn't mean

we don't exist. I will not give up and I will not be forgotten. Not

for myself, or my son or my son's son. Somehow , someway, one by one

we will be heard.

Peg