Quick favor please

[Laurie]

The Open Medicine Foundation is sponsoring a poetry contest. The OMF raises funds and initiates collaborative research for complex chronic diseases. Their current focus is on a disease that currently has no treatment and is more debilitating than many people realize. Poems are to be about living with ME/CFS and include a message of hope for the future. Two winning poems will be used in their awareness campaign in May. I will be grateful for each person who reads and votes for the poem I entered, entitled Even Though. https://www.omf.ngo/poetry-submission/even-though/

[Shann]

I've read Laurie's poem, and it is wonderful. If you or a loved one have ever suffered through a chronic illness, you'll be able to relate to this beautiful poem. If you've been blessed enough to not have suffered or have someone you know scrabble with constant pain, this poem will open your eyes. The website is doing so much to help spread the word about how Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is so much more than the name suggests. Researchers are also on the verge of some amazing results that we pray will turn into a cure or some kind of treatment. I bet you'd be surprised how many members here have been affected by this illness (including me), so please take the time to read and vote on Laurie's poem. I promise you won't be disappointed!

[Laurie]

Thank you, Shann.

Yes, the Open Medicine Foundation is awesome. I hope the winning poems in this contest will help in their efforts to spread awareness about this misunderstood disease.

[RedBaron]

I voted

[Laurie]

Thank you, Shari.

[oursilverstrands]

So did I.

Lillian

[Laurie]

Thank you, Lillian.

[RedBaron]

You're welcome. When will the winner be announced?

[Laurie]

Voting is open until March 1. Then a panel of judges will decide, and the winner will be notified by email. However, they don't give an exact date when that will happen. I wish they did, but in all fairness, they've never run a poetry contest before.

[Laurie]

I won the contest! I'm honored that my poem will be used in a song in their awareness campaign.

[Shann]

Yyyyaaaaayyyyyyyy! I'm so happy for you! I've been bubbling all day with your joy. Your poem really worked for this Site! Congratulations!

[RedBaron]

Congrats!!! (again lol). I'm so happy for you!

[oursilverstrands]

Haven't been on the Board in a while, but I'm sharing the joy, Laurie. How great is THAT!

Lillian

[Laurie]

Thanks, ladies. I'm so grateful to be writing again, and this foundation is so important to me.