The Katy Curtin Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
Tonight is an event that supports a cause very close to my heart; The Katy Curtin Multiple Sclerosis Foundation provides financial assistance to individuals with MS and their families. This financial aid helps families to pay for unmet medical needs, social services, counseling, rehabilitation, drug therapies, research, and education. Having had several family members lose their struggle with MS, I can tell you this is a worthy cause.
MS is an autoimmune condition where a person's own immune systems viciously attacks their central nervous system. Sufferers struggle with many physical and mental symptoms, including areas of skin with heightened sensitivity to touch, muscle weakness, muscle spasms, difficulties with coordination and balance, problems in speech, or swallowing, visual problems, fatigue and acute or chronic pain syndromes. Neuropathic pain is the most common, distressing and intractable of the pain syndromes in MS. Neuropathic pain usually occurs in the legs, it is constant and feels like an intense burning or tingling, pins and needles, shivering, feelings of pressure, stabbing, shooting, gnawing, tingling, tightness and numbness.
The Katy Curtin Event will be from 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornel Medical Center. There will be Cocktails & Light Buffet. Entertainment by Interoceanico, a Live Auction and celebrity co-chairs Dustin Hoffman, Bob Costas and the newly married Eli Manning. TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR, they are $150 per person. Even if you can’t make the event you can donate or learn about more ways to help. We need to find a cure!
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Elizabeth Delgado
July 31, 2008
9:06am
Hello I am a 39yo woman with Multple Scleosis. I was dignosed in 1998. At the time I was employed but since then was placed on disability I am currently receiving S.S. I have Medicare was told I do not qualify for Medcaid. I have been hospitilized several times, I've been sent to Physical and Occupational Therapy but because of Insurance reason wasn't able to go. I would like to know if the Katy Foundation can help me get the help I may need to get the therapy I need to try to live a close to normal live. I understand she has a foundation at N.Y. Presperterian Hospital and am willing to go there to better myself. Please help me get the help I may need.
sofia bobi
November 20, 2008
2:29pm
Hello, My name is Sofia, I am fifteen and my mother was diagnosed with M.S. about eight years ago. This year i am looking to do a community fund raiser. However, I need help. I would like to surprise my mom with this as a Chirstmas gift because i can not afford to buy her anything. I would also like to help your foundation out. I live in poughkeepsie New York, I have never organized a fund raiser or anything big, so I'm not really sure where to start. I really need your help and suggestions. Please, my mother is a brilliant bright single mother and I would really like to do this for her and for all of the other people fighting this, they all deserve it. I NEED HELP !! please.. Thank you so much !
Leona Hanneken
September 25, 2009
10:05pm
I was 44 when I was diagnosed with MS I am now 50, I have hated every moment of it. But what can one do. I do not know what I need, but I need something to make me smile again. I was so active, my mind was strong and I attribute some of the memory coming back to that. I do genealogy so I keep the information new and active. But I need something more in my life then genealogy. I am also on SSI so money is always an issue of doing anything. Help.