When Two Weggies Meet...

[DuaneHart]

Hi to everyone!
My wife (Mary Beth) and I met CoffeeLover (Lisa) and her husband, Dennis and their daughter today in Rochester. It was great to finally meet someone else who has WG and ask questions and just talk about our situations. We had a really nice visit and hopefully will be able to get together again. We talked about prednisone and the weight gain that goes with it and we thought of getting some t-shirts that say something like "Body By Prednisone" or something to that effect and use them as a fund raiser for Vasculitis Foundation. Any thoughts about this?

[Sangye]

Wow, Lisa is out to set a world record meeting Weggies.

I've seen funny pred t-shirts on butyoudontlooksick.com I think.

[Doug]

Whoa! That Lisa! The t-shirt is a good idea! Do you know any place where they sell XXXXXL, my size?

Congratulations, too, on meeting the Coffeelovers. Very nice people! I'm not sure why it makes a difference to meet someone else with the disease, especially since every Weggie's story is so different, but I'm still buzzing from the experience.

Who's going to be next? Come on East Coasters! You aren't going to let those Brits beat you to be the next weggies to meet other weggies, are you? The Canadians are looking a bit cozy, too, looking like they might just sneak a peak at each other before you East Coasters even know what hit you. For that matter, Lisa's on a roll, and her normal speed ("near normal"?) seems to be full out as best I can tell from the brief encounter and what Dennis Coffeelover says. For that matter, what's happening in with those Aussies?

[Sangye]

It's like "The Amazing Race." But slower. In Weggie time.

[Doug]

Body by Prednisone T-shirt from Zazzle.com


Duane and Lisa- With a few minutes to spare, I created this "Body by Prednisone" t-shirt, which I see comes in XXXXXXL! It sells for $20.10 plus shipping and handling, 15% of which is the creator's profit, i.e. Vasculitis Foundation gets it. The profit magin usually is 10% on this t-shirt, but you can adjust it to whatever the market will bear. This has been set up in my account, however. If we went ahead with a t-shirt, we probably shouyld set up a separate account where the profits could go directly to Vasculitis Foundation. There probably are legal issues, too, using the name Prednisone (Who knows? This is America!), and Vasculitis Foundation might have to sign off on having its name on the back, even though all profits come to them.

As soon as you two let me know what you think, I'm going to delete this shirt design, take it off sale, until the icky details are settled. This was created just to show you it's easy, and I can help. I thought about taking a side view of me in the mirror for illustration purposes, but thought, "Haven't I suffered enough???" Ha!

[Sangye]

Too funny, Doug. Should help us locate each other when we start gathering in larger groups.