HOPE WITH SUPPORT
"HELPING OTHERS BY PROVIDING ENCOURAGEMENT"
BRAIN TUMOR AWARENESS AND SUPPORT
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Support Group !Next Support Group MeetingDate: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Where: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore HOPE With Support is a non-profit organization that depends solely on donations. If you can't make it to the meetings, would you please consider a donation? Your donation will go toward educational materials and group expenses. Your donation is tax deductible! Thank you! |
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We have our Brain Tumor Awareness pins available now. These were specially designed for HOPE With Support. They are a "Gray" ribbon design (for the "gray matter of the brain") with a daisy representing HOPE! Do you want more than a plain "Gray" ribbon? Order our pins and make people aware of Brain Tumors and support. With the daisy, they will ask you about your awareness pin. Share about Brain Tumors and make our cause known! |
Order your pin now by emailing us at HOPE@HOPEWithSupport.org or writing: HOPE With Support, Inc. PO Box 1524, Salisbury, MD 21802. We are asking for a donation of $5.00 for each pin and $6.00 for each pendant to help support HOPE With Support's mission. The pins and pendants look like the picture above. Coming in Spring: HOPE Magnets!
Sandra Wyatt, Brain Tumor Survivor, and Tony Nichols, Board of Directors of HOPE With Support discuss on PAC14 the work of the brain tumor organization, HOPE With Support, and the ongoing survivors support group that meets locally in Salisbury.
HOPE With Support is planning additional programs with PAC14 in the upcoming months to share Brain Tumor Awareness and the work that HOPE With Support is doing in Maryland. HOPE With Support is a non-profit 501(c)(3) org. on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware to promote Brain Tumor Awareness and support for survivors, families, and caregivers.
Visit PAC14 - Public Access Channel serving Salisbury and Wicomico County, Maryland. Better yet, visit their website and become a member.
BRAIN TUMOR SERIES
By Rosemary Feit CoveyRead about Rosemary Feit Covey and her three years of artistic involvement with David Craig Welch, a young man who recently died of a brain tumor.
This work and David's story will be featured in The Washington Post Magazine this Spring.
Read more here...
Read a "great" article about early detection written by Judy, a Brain Tumor Survivor.
..."Every 20 minutes, someone dies of a brain tumor and it is estimated that one million people in the U.S. are UNKNOWINGLY walking around with one."
Great Web Site! A Project by the Brain Tumor Foundation on Early Detection:
Since the launch of The Road to Early Detection campaign in November 2008, The Bobby Murcer Mobile MRI Unit has been traveling throughout New York and its neighboring boroughs reaching out to the under-served communities and offering free MRI brain scans to those who do not have medical care available to them.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12, 2009FREE BRAIN SCANS AVAILABLE IN WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
Mobile MRI Unit Is On The Move Again The Road to Early Detection Campaign, a project of The Brain Tumor Foundation (BTF),is bringing the “Bobby Murcer” Mobile MRI Unit to Washington Heights. Beginning Monday, March 16, the Unit will be parked at 601 West 174th Street (South Curb Lane, between Wadsworth and St. Nicholas Avenues) and will remain there until Monday, March 30th.
Michael Schreiber, Chairman of Road to Early Detection and The Brain Tumor Foundation, expressed his appreciation to City Councilmember Miguel Martinez, “for helping us to secure this location and for raising public awareness of this service and its importance to the community.” The launch of the Mobile MRI Unit in November 2008 marked the start of the first-ever national campaign promoting early detection of brain tumors. Road to Early Detection focuses on outreach to communities – particularly for those under-served in the five boroughs. This marks a return visit of the Unit to Manhattan, in part due to the high demand and growing wait list of people to be scanned. Despite the increasing costs, The Mobile MRI Unit will continue to set up in places where people work, study and live in order to make brain scans, and thereby early detection, accessible and cost free.
Dr. Patrick J. Kelly, Founder and President of The Brain Tumor Foundation, maintains, “The only way to detect a tumor early is through the use of MRI brain scans. Regrettably, by the time brain tumors become symptomatic, most are incurable.”
In the 4 short months since the Unit has been traveling, several brain tumors as well as MS, Alzheimer’s and other abnormalities have been discovered. This year more than 300,000 Americans will be diagnosed with brain tumors. About a million are walking around with one and don’t know it – 25,000 of them are in New York City alone. While there are no preventive measures as yet, the impact of brain tumors can be vastly reduced. Detected and treated early – they can be completely eradicated. MRI brain scans are safe, painless, non-invasive, emit no radiation and take only ten minutes.
Scans are available by appointment only and can be scheduled by calling 877-SCAN-NYC (877-722-6692) or visiting www.roadtoearlydetection.org.
HOPE WITH SUPPORT
• To "Help Others by Providing Encouragement" to persons diagnosed with brain tumors.
• To help brain tumor survivors, their families and their caregivers by providing information, education & support.
• To promote Quality of Life for the victims of this disease.
• To promote public awareness of this disease by speaking engagements, and sharing with others.
• To advocate for brain tumor awareness among the public.READ MORE ABOUT US AND OUR MISSION!
Visit our new website section
"In The News".In the news is a new section on our website that links you to what is happening in the news with regards to information on Brain Tumors. Knowledge is powerful, and this section helps you continue to be aware of news items about Brain Tumors.
SURVIVORS STORIES
Brain Tumor survivors are special people. Your story and how you are dealing with brain tumors can encourage someone else. Share your BT story on HOPE With Support. Send to Read Survivors Stories and share yours with others. Give them HOPE!
We are adding some touching stories! Do not miss them.
SPONSOR AN EVENT FOR HOPE
Would you like to sponsor an event, walk or fundraiser for HOPE With Support to raise money for Brain Tumor Awareness and Support?
Contact us about your upcoming fund raiser and we will be glad to help you with your event. We will also post your information on our website and event calendar.
Make plans now to have a memorable event.
Word of the DayWord of the Day provided by The Free Dictionary
VIGIL NAMES
We host the vigil names on our web site. Please update in the next few weeks your survivor or angels name if there have been any changes, so they will be current for the Reading of the Names in Washington, DC. in May.
More information on this coming soon.
Providing Seeds of "Hope" To Grow A Garden Of "Love".
