Let's prevent virus from taking its toll

“ Money isn’t that important, except when a lack of it stops you from being able to help a Loved One who is suffering,” Jane- Ann Crowley a college friend of a sufferer told a community newspaper called Canning Times.

Theda Myint a broadcast journalist is suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (enduring chronic fatigue). It started when she contracted Hongkong flu while she was on a trip to England in 1999- a viral infection caused by Influenza A Virus (H3N2). Hongkong flu pandemic of 1968-69 killed 500,000 Hongkong residents, more than thirty thousand died in United States, and in Australia Influenza and pneumonia is the 13th leading causes of death.

34-year-old Myint need not necessarily have to join the list, even though the paper says that the basic of human activities like speaking and sitting are physically exhaustive with her illness. There are stories of sufferers from around the world who have survived the suffering. She could too, if we joined to help her.Her friends and families have rallied for public help. Ms Crowley has started fund raising effort and collected a humble ten thousand dollars for medical expenses and treatments, which could hit hundred thousand dollars. Her monthly treatment cost is at one thousand dollars now. She survived the suffering so far, with more of us coming together to support her I believe that she will make it.

Well I am not trying to touch upon the fact and report to you. When I read the paper this morning, the story touched me and went online to find more about her. She has a Facebook page and her fans are taking initiative to reach out to people who could help her in anyways possible. I joined the club. I thought I would upload this article in my own page and let my friends and family know about her. We could do a lot in our own small ways, for instance pray and put collective positive thoughts on her behalf, drop a dollar or two in her account and some of us could also reach out to an individual, groups, and institutions, which could help, let’s do so. We could stop the Virus from taking its toll. Not with Theda who is in dire desperation for the second shot at Life.