I’ve started to do this using Windows Live Messenger.
All you have to do is enter a special code into your nickname and everytime you start a conversation a donation will be made to your chosen charity, mine being the National MS Society.
All details can be found here:
http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/
Go join!!
My mother has ms.
The trigger was me being born.
So yeah, I owe it to her.
I will do this one day..
I talked to our Maryland chapter PR guy, and he’s open to new ideas but they seem kind of attached to the challenge walk, mini-walks, and bike ride things. I’m a bit of an athlete, but none of those events appeal to me. On the other had my (non-athletic) husband does the Polar Bear Plunge into the Chesapeake Bay every January for Special Olympics, which seems cooler (no pun intended) than breaking one’s buttocks on a bike seat for 150 miles. Maybe parachuting??? Yeah, skydiving for MS. Ugh, there’s gotta be something…
I was diagnosed with MS two years ago. MS is a progressive, debilitating disease, but it affects its victims in very different ways. I am lucky to be minimally affected (now), but I know it’s a matter of time before the symptoms begin to pile up. I am trying to think of fun, cool ways to raise money to fight this disease now, as I think there is a cure and we just haven’t found it yet.
