Hi there. We're 44 days away from my drive, and these past two weeks have been amazing. First of all, it is May, Mental Health Awareness month, and the OPI #CrazyStigmaGreen nail polish is available via donation at the Brandon Marshall Foundation site, here. When I ordered mine, well when I did my donations, I did two, back to back. I got an email from the CEO of the Foundation double checking that I hadn't mistakenly hit the 'donate' button twice, and wanted to make sure there wasn't a mistake. It just hit me just now that was awesome customer service, and endears me even more to the Foundation, and to Brandon Marshall himself. I responded to Louis Correa's email, assuring that it wasn't a mistake, and that I just wanted 2 bottles of the nail polish, one for me (and added a link to my fundraising site) and one for my nieces. He responded back that it was awesome what I was doing, and then said they will help promote it on their twitter (@BMFMentalHealth) account and facebook page! So that was very exciting and fulfilling. I had been worried that they wouldn't notice, which I know is silly and not the point, but you know it is still exciting anyway.
Then yesterday, my suspicions were confirmed about a family member of mine, through my Mother. I'm not going in to specifics, but basically I had to do a little educating of my Mom and that we shouldn't just 'Not talk about it' and hope he gets better, we need to stand together and reach out to him, because he needs help. I was lucky, I have a strong (willed) wife that helped me realize what was going on, and supported me in my treatment and diagnosis. I probably wouldn't be here at all without her support, let alone strong enough to confront my Mother about mental health awareness, and fight for my family member. She doesn't like me talking about that, because she feels terrible about not being able to go with me on the drive. I keep telling her that she is always with me, and during the drive, she'll be right there with me as I drive along the coast, because she's the best thing that ever happened to me.
Thank you again, and try to help spread the word. No one should have to suffer alone, especially family. Oh, and the reason for today's title: we're 44 days away, 4+4=8=The most important number to myself and my wife. We were married on 08/08/08, both of our birthdays are in August (the 8th month) and well, it's just a good number. 2 cubed and all that.
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