Recently, I was thrilled to meet and chat with the amazing Michael J. Fox at a Team Fox
event in New York honoring individual contributors to Parkinson’s
Disease research. My grandmother, Betty Lyle, lost her battle with PD a
year ago. My mother, diagnosed with PD five years ago, fights on. We
all do. In a way, it’s our own personal war.
You can’t imagine how this disease affects lives until you’ve seen it up close. I wanted to help, so I contacted the Fox Foundation.
Next thing I knew, I was chatting with Fox himself! Although everything
he said was awesome, one thing really got my attention: the best drug
available to treat Parkinson’s Disease is over 40 years old.
Forty years. More than six million people worldwide are now living with
PD, diagnoses are increasing at an alarming rate, and it is feared that
1-in-5 people alive today will eventually be diagnosed with this
disease. Yet here we are, trying to fight a fleet of stealth bombers
with a B-52 and some machine guns.
Something has to give. So I’m asking my South Knoxville and Seymour
“family” to join my family’s fight for a cure. Together, we can make a
difference.
To donate directly to MJFF, go to my website at www.madisonsings.com and click on LINKS, then click on FOX FOUNDATION and follow the signs from there.
If you donate at least $25 to the MJFF through my website, I’ll send
you copy of my benefit CD, “Heavenly Peace”, a collection of classic
Christmas solos accompanied by Anne Jackson’s lush Celtic harp. You can
also buy the CD at Disc Exchange, and all my proceeds will go to MJFF.
Or call KLM MEDIA at 765-2370 for more information.
The good news is that scientists are “inches” away from finding a cure
for PD, which would pave the way to cures for other deadly neurological
diseases. But reaching that goal requires funding aggressive research,
which is the Fox Foundation’s purpose.
It’s not about stem cells, people. It’s about curing real live victims of a dread disease.
Tomorrow, that could be you. Please give generously.
