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Celebrating Mum on her 70th Birthday

We’d like to give a special thanks to Teffer, Rachel, Anna, Jonathan, Maro, and Tamika who created a fundraiser for OMF in honor of their mother, Laura, on her 70th birthday. They write:

“Laura has lived with ME/CFIDS for over 25 years. She has spent the majority of those years with a severe case, bed or house-bound, and has experienced many medical practitioners not understanding her disease and/or not being able to help in any real way. A few years ago, Mum discovered the Open Medicine Foundation: www.omf.ngo. Open Medicine Foundation raises the money and accelerates the research required to tackle the global health crisis that is ME/CFIDS. ME/CFIDS and related chronic complex diseases (such as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, fibromyalgia) are dangerously misunderstood, stigmatized, underfunded and under-researched. Every day over 20 million people around the world are suffering.

While there is still very limited understanding of what causes the disease, and Mum continues to work with a wide variety of practitioners to try and improve her pain, function, and quality of life, the Open Medicine Foundation has provided a huge amount of encouragement for her simply knowing intelligent medical researchers value researching the debilitating disease she has lived with for almost three decades.”

Follow this link to contribute to their Crowdchange fundraiser for OMF: https://openmedicinefoundation.crowdchange.co/11683

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS) Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), Fibromyalgia Leading Research. Delivering Hope.Open Medicine Foundation®

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