In an effort to create greater worldwide awareness to ME and CFS young people, I would like you to call your attention to an appeal that was listed in Co-Cure Listserve this week from Jane Colby, Executive Director, The Young ME Sufferers Trust (of the UK), which is affiliated with the Thymes Magazine and the Thymes Trust. In a heartfelt appeal she asks people to forward their unused Christmas cards. Her note goes as follows:
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Hi all.

In a day or so we’ll be putting out an appeal for spare, unused Christmas cards. The Alert will appear here, but I just wanted to put an advance message out.

Each year, some of our members and friends kindly donate unused Christmas cards for us to send to our young members the following year. To supplement these, we normally have an inexpensive source where we can buy the rest. This year that source has completely dried up. Gone. Vamoosed. And we don’t yet have as many donated cards as usual, possibly because of the snow. Maybe there are some parcels in the post, maybe not.

Anyway, if you or the members of your local group have any cards they didn’t use this year, or notice any cheap cards still being sold off in supermarkets, maybe you could kindly send some to our address below. You can save postage by taking out the envelopes, as we place the cards inside Vision after they have all been personally signed, so we don’t use the envelopes.

Pretty please!

I’ve held off while so much discussion is going on about XMRV (the Trust’s position on that is in Vision at www.tymestrust.org/tymesmagazine.htm – page 19). But it can’t wait any longer!

Thanks to those generous hearts out there. Awareness is not a one day, one week or one month event. We can help each other out all the time and create more worldwide awareness for these valid causes.

Every year I simply put my cards away in a drawer and save them for the next year. This year I know how to make better use of them. This blog entry is my way of sending my very best wishes to all the world’s young ME and CFS young people. Yours is a condition of suffering that touches all of our hearts and I hope we’ll all do what we can to help you.

And a special thanks to wonderful organization like the Young ME Sufferers Trust for the valuable work that you are doing.

Send your cards only to: (no envelopes to the cards needed)
The Young ME Sufferers Trust
PO Box 4347
Stock Ingatestone
Essex CM4 9TE
Tel 0845 003 9002

Let’s make their appeal something the organization and all the young people will remember with love. Please comment about this here on the Health Matters show blog. Hit the “Share This” button and share the messsage in every way you can think of! Even re-post it to your blog, post it to Twitter, Facebook and any other place that ME and CFS people might see it like forums and groups. Really DIGG this message and send it around the world!

Together you and I can make a difference in each other’s lives.

Thanks so very, very much, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show