This is a one day shift to accommodate my very busy Thursday. I work all day, then coach games for one team, then coach a practice for another team.
The February meeting of the Vasculitis Foundation in New Mexico will meet on Friday, February 18th at 6:00PM. The location is at our current home away from home at Deli-Berry.
Deli-Berry
2520 Juan Tabo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM
(505) 508-0487
Please update your calendars. If you plan to attend, please let me know. If you plan not to attend, look on this as your opportunity to reply and let me know how you are doing. I have not heard from some of you in a while.
If the Friday meeting day works better for you, let me know and I can consider moving all the meetings to Fridays.
Looking for value added? I will bring DVDs of the 2011 VF Symposium presentations, and we can play selections from that. You have the option to buy them, and I will keep bringing them to meetings if showing them off manages to draw more people to the meetings. You have to show up to see them, or order your own set.
Following up on the last meeting, we have a potential Golf Tournament for Vasculitis in the works, so we might get some new news about that. We should also bring our thinking caps to come up with more awareness ideas. Mine is to commission a poster/TShirt for the NM Chapter that we can wear and/or sell at events.
I will have brochures, lapel pins, and T-Shirts for anyone who attends. Be there or be square.
Take the brochures back to your "other life" and spread the word. At your doctors, at your homes, and even at the grocery store! Tell everyone you know about vasculitis.
See you all on Friday!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Baseball Coach donates kidney to player with ANCA Vasculitis
Wake Forest Coach Donates Kidney To Player
February 9, 2011 from WFDD
In college athletics, coaches demand a lot of their players. So, for Wake Forest's baseball coach, it was an easy decision for him to give something back to one of his players in need: The coach donated one of his kidneys.
"TIBERII: Kevin was a highly regarded baseball prospect coming out of Georgia, projected as a future major leaguer who could've made almost a million dollars from his first contract, had he skipped college and turned pro. But he didn't - committing to Wake Forest. However, Jordan got sick during his senior year of high school and doctors diagnosed him with ANCA vasculitis, a rare disorder where a person's white blood cells attack healthy tissues."
[There may be more to this story, like a more specific diagnosis, but it is a story worth sharing... -- Joseph]
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