I just wanted to let anyone who was unaware know that fellow grad and all-round good guy Myron Petrow has been battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly five years. Myron is currently living and working in Saskatoon, where he is a team leader with Community Safety Net (a Winnipeg-based children's safety initiative organization), and from what I have seen he is much respected by his employer. Myron had responded to the invitation to the recent grad get-together, and through exchanged e-mail messages I learned that the disease has progressed to the point that travel is becoming increasingly difficult for him, and it has greatly affected his ability to work. Myron is hoping to go to a clinic in California for the Liberation Procedure. This procedure, which is designed to alleviate the symptoms of MS caused by chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI, is still considered somewhat controversial and largely unavailable in Canada, although the federal government recently announced the funding of clinical trials. Liberation therapy has markedly improved the lives of many of those MS sufferers who have received it, and I'm rooting for our good friend Myron as he embarks on this journey. If you would like to help defray the considerable cost of this procedure for Myron, he has a page on the GoFundMe website, the link to which you will find below. I encourage you to visit and make a contribution to his fight.
Thanks,
M
Click here to go to Myron's GoFundMe webpage