VWs for CAUSES

[Carole & the 'YesWeCanCamperVan']

Hello everyone!

I'm the Carole that made the announcement on the BBB stage on Sunday morning about my DRIVE FOR MG across America later this year.

I'll stop anywhere across country where there's support from the VW community to help us spread the word.

Arrange your club to meet us (me and my 71 Westy), or drive alongside us for one, ten or one hundred miles to get more local press interest and publicity for the cause, or join us on the internet and spread the word that way.

To add your support, you can:

1. join us on the Van's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-YesWeCan-CamperVan/203679777444) and click 'LIKE' at the top of the page ...

2. go to our travels website (http://yeswecanjourney.wordpress.com) and subscribe by adding your email address (all info kept confidential) and then replying to the email that you'll get from Wordpress that checks it is you that is making the request ...

3. do both

Simply by joining and spreading the word you'll help our cause and show patients with MG (http://myasthenia.org) just how caring the VW Family can be. 

THANK YOU,

Carole xxx

[Carole & the 'YesWeCanCamperVan']

P.S. the reason I am doing this drive is that my mother, Gladys, got Myasthenia Gravis (MG) when she was only 20 years of age, in 1944. She bravely battled on for the next 51 years always agreeing to go into hospital so the newest group of medical students could see her. It was distressing to me to hear of her being prodded and treated like a rare specimen but she always told me she had to do it to help others. My Mum died in 1996 and it's only now I can talk about the years with MG.

The other reason for my asking for your support, is that I recently discovered that even today people are taking one, two or even five years to get diagnosed and suffering needlessly from this debilitating neuro-muscular condition, because doctors (and the public) have hardly ever heard of this rare disease. Also because patients are few in number they are isolated, do not always get support and feel misunderstood by the public. It's a lonely place to be.

By getting the word MG out there, we can make a huge difference to the quality of life of the MG community AND let them know that we, the VW Family, really do care.