This week's blog isn't going to be funny. Unless you think multiple sclerosis is funny. Okay, to be fair, I think we've all told a joke or two about lesions on the myelin sheath—the very topic lends itself to wisecracks and puns, doesn't it?—but I'm trying to be serious here. Bear with me; I'm not good with serious.
My friend Renee is fabulous. She's funny and creative and can make awesome Halloween costumes out of things she's found in the clearance bin at the local Goodwill. She's thoughtful and sweet and twisted: this year for my birthday, she gave me two necklaces that are actually miniatures of two of my book covers. She also gave me a pencil sharpener that looks like a nose. You stick the pencil up the nostril and give it a twist to sharpen. Awesome, right?
Renee also has MS.
Every year since 2009 (Renee was diagnosed in the fall of 2008), Renee forms a team and participates in the National Walk MS event. Every year, I join her team, raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and walk with her. Except in 2011—I raised money but didn't walk—but to be fair, I had knee surgery two days before the event. And then there was last year. Last year, I had another engagement the same weekend, so I did what any rational person would do when they're feeling guilty for missing something so important: I wrote and illustrated a children's book about Renee and her family starring her son Patrick, published it, and used it to fundraise for the National MS Society. I'm sure you would do the same. (If you knew Renee, you would!)
This year, I will be at the event, and I'm raising money again. Anyone who donates $20 or more to my MS fundraising page (http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/staceylongo) will get a signed copy of My Mom Has MS. Already have one because you donated last year? Then if you donate again this year, you will get my unwavering gratitude, and a wet, sloppy kiss the next time I see you.
If you don't want to donate $20 or more, but you really want the book, you can always order it on Amazon (if you click on the word Amazon there, it'll take you right to the book). A portion of every book sold is donated to the National MS Society. If you don't care about the book, but still want to donate, but maybe not as much as twenty dollars, that's still wonderful. Just click on the link (that was http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/staceylongo) and you'll still get a kiss!
Please help. Please donate. Because Renee is awesome. Because MS is a crappy disease, and you want to help fight it. Because you want to say "It's totally okay when I crack jokes about myelin sheath lesions. I just donated to the MS Society, so it's cool. I can prove it: see my copy of My Mom Has MS?"
I won't judge. I'll even let you borrow my pencil sharpener.
My friend Renee is fabulous. She's funny and creative and can make awesome Halloween costumes out of things she's found in the clearance bin at the local Goodwill. She's thoughtful and sweet and twisted: this year for my birthday, she gave me two necklaces that are actually miniatures of two of my book covers. She also gave me a pencil sharpener that looks like a nose. You stick the pencil up the nostril and give it a twist to sharpen. Awesome, right?
Renee also has MS.
Every year since 2009 (Renee was diagnosed in the fall of 2008), Renee forms a team and participates in the National Walk MS event. Every year, I join her team, raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and walk with her. Except in 2011—I raised money but didn't walk—but to be fair, I had knee surgery two days before the event. And then there was last year. Last year, I had another engagement the same weekend, so I did what any rational person would do when they're feeling guilty for missing something so important: I wrote and illustrated a children's book about Renee and her family starring her son Patrick, published it, and used it to fundraise for the National MS Society. I'm sure you would do the same. (If you knew Renee, you would!)
This year, I will be at the event, and I'm raising money again. Anyone who donates $20 or more to my MS fundraising page (http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/staceylongo) will get a signed copy of My Mom Has MS. Already have one because you donated last year? Then if you donate again this year, you will get my unwavering gratitude, and a wet, sloppy kiss the next time I see you.
If you don't want to donate $20 or more, but you really want the book, you can always order it on Amazon (if you click on the word Amazon there, it'll take you right to the book). A portion of every book sold is donated to the National MS Society. If you don't care about the book, but still want to donate, but maybe not as much as twenty dollars, that's still wonderful. Just click on the link (that was http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/staceylongo) and you'll still get a kiss!
Please help. Please donate. Because Renee is awesome. Because MS is a crappy disease, and you want to help fight it. Because you want to say "It's totally okay when I crack jokes about myelin sheath lesions. I just donated to the MS Society, so it's cool. I can prove it: see my copy of My Mom Has MS?"
I won't judge. I'll even let you borrow my pencil sharpener.
Renee and me and the book in 2015.
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