Fly with ME

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Goal: €500.00

Do you remember being asked about the birds?

I don't...

At the beginning of 2017, a turbulent journey started for me. Following the two brain inflammations I experienced that year, I founded the ItsME Foundation. The aim of this foundation is to raise funds for scientific research into Meningitis and Encephalitis. The first two letters form the name of the foundation: ME. And your brain, that's you: It's me...

If you contract meningitis, you're in for some serious headwind as a bird. First, you have to overcome the illness, which is like a Force 10 storm.

Please accept that this was a strong headwind. Then came the recovery, during which it turned out a few months later that the first encephalitis had been so severe that my body had produced antibodies, but too many. So an overreaction. This caused the antibodies to fight against me, resulting in a second inflammation. I then landed in a storm with the force of a hurricane. I had to take a serious amount of Prednisone because of this. Side effects arrived, insomnia and depression. I literally gained 50 kg. I am completely off it now, but it was a terrible time.

One of the first studies we want to fund is about a potential way to prevent such an effect from a second inflammation. If you have any good ideas for raising funding, I'm open to anything. Fly with ME.

Participants

These amazing people are committed to promoting more international research into meningitis. Will you help us achieve this project’s goal? Your donation is greatly appreciated. Every euro counts! Below, you can donate to individual people or to teams. You can search by team or by the participant’s name.

Become a volunteer?

As a professional charity, we try to keep costs as low as possible. Therefore, we can use all the help we can get. As Lionel Richie once sang, “Is it me you're looking for?” In other words, if our foundation's purpose aligns with yours, please sign up to volunteer.