Pepsi Refresh Project; Cure JM in 4th Place!

Michelle | August 16, 2010

Image via Wikipedia I posted earlier about Cure JM having a chance at a $250,000 grant from Pepsi and we still do! Voting is open until the end of August. In July we were in 12th place and as of today we are in 4th. Woot Woot!!  The top two will each receive the grants.  [...]

Infusion, Confusion, Intermission…

Michelle | August 5, 2010

I am in the process of getting a new treatment this week. It’s called IVIg and it’s exciting and it sucks. When I say it sucks, it’s because I’m the lucky ’50%’ that the nurse said would get a killer headache. It’s the worst one I’ve ever had.   I am banking so much on [...]

Make Juvenile Myositis A Memory!

Michelle | July 24, 2010

Pepsi is hosting a contest and is giving away 250K to the winner! I’m supporting Make Juvenile Myositis a Memory by The Cure JM Foundation.  About 5,000 kids in the US are affected by this disease, putting it in the ‘rare disease’ category. But just because that number isn’t astronomical, doesn’t mean that they don’t [...]

A Proud American Family-online.

Michelle | July 3, 2010

Have you ever happened on a blog, through a blog of a blog?  I was reading a blog one day and there was a comment from someone who had an interesting user name.  So, I clicked his link and started to read his blog.  Which brought me to his brother’s blog, which I became totally [...]

June is Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month-yes, I’m late!

Michelle | July 1, 2010

I’ve been a little backwards lately…a lot going on in the Lane.  I wanted to talk about MG and APS as both have awareness months in June.  Even though I kind of missed the boat on talking about them earlier it’s ok, as long as word gets out, it’s ok if it’s late.  Right??  I’m [...]