Make a Gift of Hope Today: Benefiting Cure JM in honor of Alli!
Your gift gives children hope this holiday season.
It has been over two years since Alli was diagnosed with juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) and what a difference her life is now from those early days of September 2021 when she was forced to use a wheelchair and spend almost two weeks in a rehab hospital learning to re-train her muscles again to do basic, everyday tasks. As of November 2023, she just finished up her second year of marching band and is leading a pretty normal life thanks to the doctors and medicines that keep this disease at bay.
The treatments currently used are life-saving, but can often be worse than the disease itself. Treatments used are steroids and chemotherapy, causing years of nausea, days spent in the hospital, and harsh side effects.
You can give children a better future.
Like most rare diseases, juvenile myositis research is only made possible by friends and families like you.
Please make a gift to help us reach our family's fundraising goal.
Gifts will be matched by the Coffey Family Match:
- Click "donate now"
- Checks can be made out to Cure JM and mailed to Cure JM, P.O. Box 45768, Baltimore, MD 21297, with our family's name in the memo
Your gift will be put right to work to:
- Find new treatments with fewer side effects, including baricitinib and other new drugs
- Help patients get the best care
- Educate doctors, parents, and patients on the latest in treatments and care
- Fund innovative new research, including investigating a new type of gene therapy and a groundbreaking new study to determine what is happening inside individual cells, to better target treatments
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