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Keep Moving Help People with Rare Autoimmune Diseases
Gildan Ladies 100% Cotton T-shirt
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About this campaign
This fundraiser is about not only raising money for the foundation, but also raising awareness. Rare autoimmune diseases are rapidly on the rise and touch many families. They have no cure. We want to help support these individuals and their families by increasing the dialogue and building more support both emotionally and financially.
As this is our second fundraiser, we were able to wear our shirts with the logo to show them on a child and female with heads via the video! The first campaign was a huge success and great fun. Thank you to all who contributed! The video, if you choose to watch it, is a bit long but is interesting to watch as it shows the impact of illness through the eyes and of a child. My son and I have talked about autoimmune illnesses, trying to understand what is happening inside the body. How it is different than catching a cold or something "airborne" as he states in the video clip. Autoimmune diseases truly impact not only the person who is sick but those close to them in very signficant ways....ways which will forever change them. I believe my child has become more compassionate, caring, wiser, and and an advocate at 9 years old for this vast community of people. It is amazing! You will see I do keep it simple when I talk to him about it. Baby steps....just like getting better. It's too much to wrap our heads around sometimes, to get our get our bodies to do what we what want all at once. Give time, time.....or our brains, time.
Wearing these shirts is about health. Having a healthy mind and body, while also reminding people that rare autoimmune diseases do exist! We need to support these people and their unique needs. This may be with the use of a walker, cane, assistance cleaning the house, travel expenses to see a medical specialist, a dog walker, grocery shopper, etc.. It can be quite difficult to complete basic daily life needs. Help us "level the playing field" and make their lives more manageable. Please help support Keep Moving Help RAD and buy one of our shirts!
My name is Dawn Colletto. I am the President and Founder of Keep Moving Help Rare Autoimmune Diseases. I was treated for, and then determined to be grossly misdiagnosed, with two rare autoimmune diseases after being initially diagnosed in October 2014 (after first becoming symptomatic in August 2010). When I was diagnosed with the second autoimmune disease in October 2015, I felt as though my body was failing me...like it was slowly dying and no one knew what to do. I could no longer work, but didn't want to sit home watching tv all day. I decided to start a foundation to support the needs of people like me. I needed help with basic day to day living, required a walker, couldn't clean my house, struggled with grocery shopping, driving my car, reading a book, watching tv, even typing. I wanted someone to talk to who could relate to what I was going through. People I could learn from. I also wanted to help people who possibly couldn't pay for the TONS of medical expenses I was experiencing... hotel stays and plane flights to go to specialists, medications, co-pays, ER visits, and the list goes on. This is how the foundation began.
We now have a website and Facebook page as well as a You Tube, Twitter, and Instagram account. They are places for information, sharing, and supporting those who need both emotional and financial support. The name "Keep Moving" came from brainstorming with some of my father's former football players at Purdue University. It was a few days of my life I will never forget. The collaboration years later with now fathers, husbands, businessmen, community leaders, great men who I knew 20+ years ago as college students who worked hard at an excellent university both on and off the field. I will forever be grateful for their help. They know who they are. Thank you.
When you are not feeling well, you don't feel like moving. However, it is the worst thing for you...to not move your body, your brain, your spirit in some way, everyday. This is the heart of Keep Moving Help RAD. It is our desire to do collaborate, do whatever we can to help those who are struggling and improve this area of their lives. So not only can they live happier and with less stress, but so can their family and those close to them. Rare autoimmune diseases which have no cure impacts a village.
-Photograph taken by Joseph O'Leary www.wiseramuser.com To me...love is all around us and the spirit of kindness. He is able to capture it in ways which warm my heart and represent us well. Thank you my dear friend!
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I also have a RAD! Right now fighting for correct diagnosis! Will "KEEP MOVING" until the end!! Thank you Diana&supporters
My son also has a autoimmune disease and I just wanted to help!!!!
Go Dawn!!
Because Dawn rocks!
I have Stiff Person Syndrome myself