We all need to "count our blessings" - especially when we have been blessed with good health. Our health is something we don't always appreciate until it is gone. There are so many families who are suffering with serious illness. Help them have hope by helping the organizations that are committed to stamping out these dreadful diseases and also assisting the ones who are now suffering because of these diseases.
Listed below are some of the organizations and facilities that I am especially touched by and feel would greatly benefit from any help you can give.
Linda Moore
Houston-Texas-Online
M.D.A. (Muscular Dystrophy Association)
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is the source for news and information about 40 neuromuscular diseases, MDA research and services for adults and children with neuromuscular diseases and their families. There are many ways you can help in MDA's fight against neuromuscular diseases, including donating and volunteering with MDA.
Visit the "MDA Art Collection" and send an Art e-Postcard created by artists with one of the 40 neuromuscular disorders in MDA's program.
Houston area support groups, summer camps and general services - contact: Program Services Coordinator - 713-522-8561
Houston area volunteering, fund-raising and local events information - contact: District Director - 713-522-8561
Houston area clinics - contact: Texas Institute for Rehab. & Research - Director: Itzel Solis, M.D.; The Vicki Appel MDA Neuromuscular clinic, Baylor College of Medicine - Director: Stanley H. Appel, M.D.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms may be mild such as numbness in the limbs or severe - paralysis or loss of vision. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is dedicated to ending the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis.
1-800-FIGHT-MS (1-800-344-4867)
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society
733 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10017
E-mail: info@nmss.org
Periwinkle Foundation
Send a child to Camp Periwinkle. Camp Periwinkle is available to children who are being (or have been treated) for cancer or hematologic diseases at Texas Children's Hospital. Campers range in age from 7 to 15 years of age.
Camp Periwinkle Foundation Office - 713-770-2858
Camp Periwinkle "Hotline" - 713-661-4960
Fax - 713-770-2182
E-mail: webmaster@campperiwinkle.org
Camp Periwinkle
1919 South Braeswood MC4-1000
Houston, Texas 77030-2399
Ronald McDonald House
Residential facility that serves as a temporary home-away-from-home for parents and families of children being treated for serious illnesses at Texas Medical Center Hospitals.
The Ronald McDonald House is located at 1907 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, Texas 77030. Applications are submitted by phone: 713-795-3570.
Texas Children's Cancer Center
The Texas Children's Cancer Center provides comprehensive care to nearly 1,000 new patients with cancer and blood diseases each year in both outpatient and inpatient facilities.
713-770-4200
Texas Children's Cancer Center
1102 Bates St. MC3-3320
Houston, Texas 77030
1-800-CANCER9
E-mail: klarson@msmail.his.tch.tmc.edu
