Hi All

[Guest guest]

I've never posted before but I lurk quite a bit. My son was born 12 weeks

early, he's been diagnosed with a seizure disorder, food intolerances, PDD which

has been recently changed to ADHD-C w/ lingering PDD issues and anxiety. He

doesn't quite fit anywhere well...not preemie, not ASD and not ADHD. So I lurk

a lot in a bunch of different places. That's the quick version.

I'm posting today because I haven't seen any mention of this on the list and

wanted to make sure that you are all aware.

Right now Pepesi is running a contest to grant 32 groups/month with

$250K/$50K/$25K/$5K for a total of $1.3 million/month. In order for a group to

win they need to recieve one of the top 10 amount of votes in their category in

a given month.

Dr. Cunningham's PANDAS research is in it's second month running for $50K, only

made it to #21 in May, and is needing some more support to reach that top 10

category this month. There is some stiff competition and so I am here to grovel

for support.

As you are probably aware Dr. Cunningha's research could have profound

implications for a wide population of our kids.

Please take the time to register & vote for this worthy effort. If you do not

have firefox browser, this is the easiest way to vote:

Vote for PANDAS to receive a $50K grant for research:

http://www.refresheverything.com/search/?q=p.a.n.d.a.s & ic=0 & im=0

If you do have firefox, you can easily click the tab to view all the information

that has been provided about the grant application.

For those who do not have firefox and want more information:

Information on PANDAS:

http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/pdn/web.htm

Information about Dr. Cunningham & PANDAS:

http://www.pandasnetwork.org/

I appologize for popping in just to ask for a favor, but these kids really need

the suppoort. Please take the time to vote daily, your participation is

critical to winning. Please also consider spreading the word.