You have to FIGHT!!

Double Your Impact   Amarissa at the 2014 Lupus Foundation of America Evening of Hope Two years ago, my vibrant thirteen year-old daughter Amarissa - an aspiring gymnast - could barely walk. She was so tired that she could hardly lift herself out of bed. Her diagnosis was lupus. As she lay in a hospital bed with an enlarged heart and a failing liver, she told me she didn't want to die. I told her, "Then you have to fight." Fighting - that's what the Lupus Foundation of America does every day for the millions of people impacted by this devastating disease. They are fighting lupus in children through the only research program dedicated to pediatric lupus. This month, the Lupus Foundation of America has been challenged by of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and the Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation to raise $100,000 to support research programs like this. That's right, when you make a gift, your impact will double!  Your $25 gift becomes $50  Your $100 gift becomes $200  Your $500 gift becomes $1,000  Amarissa and other children with lupus are counting on you. You can help the Lupus Foundation of America fund the cutting edge research needed to discover the causes of lupus in children and develop safe and effective treatments.   Amarissa has fought hard. Today her lupus is under control thanks to the fourteen pills she takes daily. She has resumed gymnastics and has become a lupus advocate. Lupus is a cruel disease though, and we never know when it might become active again. To make progress against this devastating disease and to ensure no child has to experience what Amarissa has had to go through, Lupus Foundation of America needs your support. Make your gift before August 15 - and your gift will be matched.        We're counting on you! Dyan P.S. Give today and you can have twice the impact. Thanks to the generosity of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and the Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation, your gift will be doubled and more money can go to research lupus in children.