Norwegian ME / CFS patient, Ragnhild Holmås, has decided it is time for her to be heard. In honor of her 30th birthday, she invited friends to support OMF’s ME / CFS research as her birthday present. “The stigma that’s still connected to ME kept me quiet for six years. But I can’t fight stigma with silence. That’s why I speak up. And this is so much bigger than me – Open Medicine Foundation is a beacon of hope for millions of people like me around the world. They deserve all the support they can get.”
We are honored to be a part of Ragnhild’s birthday and to be delivering hope. Ragnhild set up a Facebook fundraising event and her friends have rallied, together raising over $4,300. Ragnhild has inspired her entire community. The local press, Bergens Tidende, recently published an article that included interviews with Linda Tannenbaum, OMF CEO/President and ME / CFS researcher Karl Johan Tronstad (who collaborates with Øystein Fluge and Olav Mella.)
Translated highlights from the article:
Donate your appreciated stock directly to OMF and you can receive an immediate income-tax deduction for the fair market value of the securities on the date of transfer (even if you originally paid much less for them).