Definitely worth the 2 clicks of my time. Hell, it had to be my best and most important 2 clicks I can ever remember performing.
Ok guys... no one in their right mind doesn't want to help sick children. But it's hypocritical to call people heartless for complaining about this being in a hot deals forum... a corporate entity is exploiting this situation to generate web traffick... it has nothing to do with helping anything. And for those of you who complain about people like me who say things like this shgouldn't be in the hot deals forum, you're being very hypocritical... if you *really* care about these things, you'll do more than click some web link, go out and make a real donation, then you can flaunt and feel good about yourselves. 
I suggest this thread get locked.
I suggest this thread get locked.
Sure aleve gets something out of it, but so do kids afflicted with JRA.
Two of my girlfriend's siblings are afflicted with this. They were on an experimental treatment which had no apparent side effects and completely stopped their immune system from attacking their cartiledge. Unfortunately, the company with this drug ran out of money, and nobody bought it, so they're back to square one. The only other programs they can get into right now have side effects, some are linked with cancer, others turn your teeth black and make you sick.
One of her siblings has to wear a leg brace and use crutches...he's about 15 and will be lucky if it doesn't get worse, 'cause it can't get better.
The other sibling has it worse. She's about 9 I think, but she looks more like she's 6, she's tiny, and her body attacks the cartiledge in her eyes, so she has to have surgery on her eyes every 6 months, which hurts like hell. Then for a week she can't see anything (and has to have bandages over her eyes). Eventually she will go blind if they do not improve their eye surgery techniques and/or if her JRA gets bad again (which it could since she is currently not in any treatment programs for it...)
So needless to say this is an awful disease and the current treatments out there have a long way to go, AND they need funding to do research for any cures, it takes a damn long time to get FDA approval.
So instead of whining that this isn't a hot deal, take 20 seconds out of your life to do for someone else for a change, consider it a holiday gift
Two of my girlfriend's siblings are afflicted with this. They were on an experimental treatment which had no apparent side effects and completely stopped their immune system from attacking their cartiledge. Unfortunately, the company with this drug ran out of money, and nobody bought it, so they're back to square one. The only other programs they can get into right now have side effects, some are linked with cancer, others turn your teeth black and make you sick.
One of her siblings has to wear a leg brace and use crutches...he's about 15 and will be lucky if it doesn't get worse, 'cause it can't get better.
The other sibling has it worse. She's about 9 I think, but she looks more like she's 6, she's tiny, and her body attacks the cartiledge in her eyes, so she has to have surgery on her eyes every 6 months, which hurts like hell. Then for a week she can't see anything (and has to have bandages over her eyes). Eventually she will go blind if they do not improve their eye surgery techniques and/or if her JRA gets bad again (which it could since she is currently not in any treatment programs for it...)
So needless to say this is an awful disease and the current treatments out there have a long way to go, AND they need funding to do research for any cures, it takes a damn long time to get FDA approval.
So instead of whining that this isn't a hot deal, take 20 seconds out of your life to do for someone else for a change, consider it a holiday gift
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