A Message From Molly
Dear Friends,
Thank you for your interest in Molly's Fund. In March, 2005, I was an aspiring opera singer on the verge of signing three major performance 
contracts. Then one day my world was turned upside down by lupus. I simultaneously contracted painful and debilitating infections in my ears, eyes, sinuses, kidneys and bladder. I would finish a cycle of antibiotics and have a few weeks of normalcy, only to have the same infections return. Over two years, I saw four primary care physicians in Oregon and nine specialists in California before I reached a diagnosis. Some of these doctors told me that I was overly dramatic and had no tolerance for pain. Meanwhile, being uncertain of my health, I had to abandon my opera career, to which I'd devoted ten years of hard work.
For those of us with lupus, a diagnosis is just the beginning of a long, sometimes frightening fight with a disease that has no known cause and no cure. In many ways, I am very lucky: I received a relatively early diagnosis, and I have a wonderful family and friends who stand behind me in my fight. It's with their strength and support that I decided to launch Molly's Fund Fighting Lupus. Our purpose is to educate the public and medical providers about lupus, a serious and sometimes deadly auto-immune disease, and to push foundations and governments to fund research toward its cure.
We will keep pushing until doctors recognize the symptoms of lupus more readily, until the pain and debilitation of lupus patients is taken seriously, and until major research efforts are undertaken to find the cure. We will keep up the fight until we understand how lupus is contracted, and until we find effective treatment for it.
Again, thanks for your interest in Molly's Fund, and I hope you will join us in our fight.
Sincerely, Molly McCabe