This document discusses scleroderma and efforts to raise awareness for the disorder. It describes scleroderma as an autoimmune disorder that affects the skin and internal organs. It details how the author decided to get involved with the scleroderma cause after meeting someone with the disorder online. The author hopes to help raise awareness and funds for scleroderma research through volunteering and outreach.

1. HELPING OUT A FORGOTTEN CAUSE: SCLERODERMA
I feel like hope is
THE BEGINNING everywhere…you just have to look
for it.
I decided to get involved I have Rheumatoid Arthritis You should never give up,
with the Scleroderma cause when I and it’s awful. It just never seems to because There is a always a
leave me alone. I feel like I can reason for living, a reason for
met someone online with
smiling, and a reason for fighting
Scleroderma. She was very nice never get any relief. I am thinking
on.
and kind of wild. She had been that if I can help someone else out,
You should never stop
suffering with it for years. According that I will feel better as well! loving, because there are so many
to her, she could die from it. I felt so That’s why I am reaching wonderful people out there who
sad when I heard that. I knew when out to people with Scleroderma. I need your love.
I heard that…that I wanted her to am hoping to help raise awareness
live, not die. for this horrible disorder.
Scleroderma is an I am even volunteering for
autoimmune disorder that affects an active cause that is trying to
the skin, and internal organs. raise 30,000 dollars! I finally feel like
I am going to climb every
Sometimes it only affects the skin. It I am making a difference. And every
mountain that I see. I am going to
can also cause the hands to curl. I day I wake up… I still feel like that. continue to strive to be the best. I
don’t have this disorder but I know am going to keep going on and on.
what it’s like to live in an I will always keep fighting my
disease.
autoimmune hell.
I will never stop being who I
am because who I am is a
wonderful thing. I will never stop
TO ALL THOSE WITH SCLERODERMA being strong, because strength is
needed to fight autoimmune
I wish you all luck… I
disorders. Never stop the good
wish you all hope… I
fight.
wish you all faith… I
wish you all a cure…