Thank you for visiting my LAM Foundation fundraising page. Donating through this website is simple, fast and totally secure.  Your gift is tax-deductible as The LAM Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization.

Fundraising Event-update:

Thank you to everyone who participated in the fundraising event at Homestead Furnishings on Nov 7.  It was an incredible success!  It was wonderful to visit with so many people and feel your support.  Thank you too to the many people people who couldn't attend but made donations.

If you weren't able to attend and would still like to make a contribution to The LAM  Foundation, you may still make an online contribution at this site or mail me a check made payable to "The LAM Foundation."

My Story:

I was diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) in January 2011 during the pregnancy of my third child.  The diagnosis came quite unexpectedly and only as the result of having a CT scan of my lungs in the ER.  It was previously thought that the pregnancy had aggrevated an underlying asthma condition since many of the symptoms of LAM are the same as asthma.  Asthma medication, however, was not helping, and the shortness of breath I experienced with even the simplest of tasks was becoming alarming.

I am relieved to finally have an accurate diagnosis, but the fact that there is no cure for this rare, degenerative lung disease means I must do what I can to support the research for finding a cure.  It's impossible to know how aggressively this disease will take over my lungs, but I live with its effects everyday as I struggle to catch my breath when I climb a flight of stairs, walk across a parking lot, read a book to my children or push a grocery cart.  With less than 40% lung function, it has already changed my life.

Please consider a gift to The LAM Foundation to support the efforts of researchers as they study LAM and look for treatments and a cure.  Great strides have been made already, but there is so much more that needs to be done.

Thank you for your gift!

For more information about LAM visit www.thelamfoundation.org.  Currently there are only about 2,000 women who know they have LAM, but researchers believe there are closer to 250,000 women who have the disease but don't know it--many may be misdiagnosed.