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I came to America by myself when I was 20 years old making one of my biggest dreams come true and I have been living in this country since then.
In October of 2006, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the brain, spinal cord, and the optic nerves.
I was told that I had the disease and 3 days later, I had my first relapse that sent me to the hospital for ten days.
While learning more about the disease, I felt the need to get involved to do whatever I could to help support research to find a cure and help others deal with the same challenges that I was facing.
I started raising funds by writing a letter to tell my story to family and friends in May of 2007.
With the help of a special friend, in September of the same year, I created a project that I call Flowers4MS.
In April 2008, I launched a website, called www.Flowers4MS.com where I share my story and where I sell floral greeting cards, photos of Italy and car stickers.
I donate 100% of the proceeds to support the doctors and the scientists that are trying to find a cure for Multiple Sclerosis.
Since its inception, and despite several MS relapses, I have raised a little over $37,000 dollars and we became a non Profit Foundation 501 C3 on April 26th of 2010.
While in the past two years, the funds went to support the work of doctors and scientists at Johns Hopkins and Southwestern Medical Center, since December of 2009, I started collecting funds for CCSVI, a very interesting and new field of research that is changing the way we look and treat MS.
Thanks to an Italian doctor called Paolo Zamboni that works at the University of Ferrara (viva l'Italia!) there is new excitement and hope for MS patients.
Chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) is a syndrome in which the venous system is not able to remove efficiently the oxygen-poor blood from the CNS. It is a complex vascular condition that presents narrowing restricts the normal outflow of blood from the brain, causing alterations in the blood flow patterns within the brain that eventually causes injury to brain tissue and degeneration of neurons.
Flowers4MS is happy to annouce that we have begun raising funds to support CCSVI research and can announce that we have raised more than 6,000 dollars for the BNAC center in Buffalo, New York.
Why did I choose flowers to represent Multiple Sclerosis?
Well, I view flowers as a symbol of hope, beauty and life and I feel they are the perfect representation of my dream, which is finding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis and for all the rare neurological diseases that are so similar to it.
I wanted to use something as beautiful and positive as flowers to overshadow the pain and suffering that these disorders can cause.
Flowers bring joy in very simple, but wonderful ways and they speak to everyones hearts through their beauty.
For more information, please visit my site:
www.flowers4MS.com
and my Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/pag...
MS aside, I can tell you that I love cooking, traveling, scrapbooking, gardening, decorating and keeping in touch with my friends that live all over the world.
I love flowers, colors and taking pictures!
I enjoy having my friends come to visit me and I like to show them this country and I also love going back to my country and be surrounded by my old time friends and the things that I love and miss very much.
I love spending time with my flowers in what I call "my little botanical garden".
Hometown:
Gorizia, Italia
Country:
United States
Occupation:
President - The Flowers4MS Foundation Inc.
Non Profit Foundation
Interests:
Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis Fundraising, Exercising, Walking, Scrapbooking, Decorating, Gardening, Taking Photos, Cooking, Traveling, Writing and Keeping in touch with my friends that live all over the world.
Movies:
August Rush, Sweet November, Rain Man, Dirty Dancing, Patch Adams, The Family Man, Walk in the Clouds, Serendipity, Pay it Forward, Mrs. Doubtfire, Top Gun...
Music:
I like many different kinds of music!
I enjoy Italian music, Opera, American country music, dance music, some alternative, some pop and some rock!
Books:
The prophet, by Gibran
Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri
Palomino by Danielle Steel
Many English romance books and many more Italian books.
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sei riuscita a caricare il video che mi avevi detto .....
......si, si percepisce la tua rabbia ma anche tutta la tua forza e la grinta che ti ha permesso di vincere le dure battaglie.....
un grande abbraccio Michele
Sei cara' ......e bellissima amica mia ...dal cuore lo dico...
un bacio al tuo cuore ... forte ... nel senso ... funny .and strong .....
bacione ....a presto .....
un caro saluto e un sorriso,
t.v.b.Ilaria
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