What can you do to spread awareness!

There are so many ways you can help spread the word about endometriosis.  Please pick a few.  I would love to hear what you are going to do!

Events You Can Do
From Your Living Room

1)      Turn Facebook Yellow for Endometriosis : Really simple, for the month of march let’s have facebook turn yellow! Ask all of your family and friends to do it too.  http://www.endochallenge.com/

2)      Participate in Knock Out Endo’s powerful social media campaign by joining their facebook page and share why you pledge to Knock Out Endo… https://www.facebook.com/Knockoutendo

3)      Donate Money to help Endometriosis Patients or Endometriosis Non-profits. There are awesome non-profits who are campaigning this month who would appreciate your support.

Global Events

1)      On March 28th, communities across theglobe will be working in conjunction with Worldwide EndoMarch to participate in awareness events. Check out their website to see what is going on in your community. EndoMarch is organizing two main events this year in Palo Alto California and Washington D.C. To register for these events and get more information at http://www.endomarch.org/  If you plan on attending the D.C. event make sure to go to the social event the night before run by some of the best leaders in the community: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/endosocial-2015-tickets-15783198973

Oregon Events

1)    on March 8th, I will be in Eugene with my fellow supporters to do a flash mob.  It is going to be a great event!  The Oregon Duck will even be there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/391506197674200/  make sure you are wearing yellow!

Thank you for taking a step to spread awareness about this horrible disease!  It affects far too many women and we need to be more aware of it.

What the EndoMarch means to ME!

Anything I can be a part of that gets the word out to at least one more person, I am going g to be there.  I have suffered in silence for 20 years.  I have had family members laugh at me because there was no way I could be in that much pain, it's just a period.  I have had doctors that don't believe me.  I have felt like crap but pushed through it because I had to be exaggerating it, noone else else seems like their insides are being torn out every month.  No other woman deserves to feel like they have a cork screw digging inside them.  I am a mother of a daughter and the Auntie of my nieces.  They don't deserve to go through this.  Through the publicity of this march I hope that we will help gain awareness for this invisible disease.  No you can't see it.  As my friend Steffanie said today, "if this disease were on the outside of our bodies we would look horrific."  You wouldn't be able to ignore it then so why ignore it now. 

I wish I had all the money in the world and could fly to Washington DC to be at this walk in person!  I wish I healed faster from my surgery and could go to Palo Alto to march.   It's just not feasible this year but I WILL be there next year.  And I will be there in spirit, marching right along with these powerful men and women.  Together we will make a difference.   We will step closer to a cure. We will educate people about invisible illnesses. 

Www.endomarch.org