We will have our second monthly meeting for the Fibromyalgia Support Group Meeting on the 19th of June 2010.  Monthly meetings are scheduled for the third Saturday of each month.  This month’s meeting will take place at Café Blanc, Dubai Festival City, at 10am.  This is a time where we can meet, support each other because we truly understand.

If you can not make it and you would like to ask any questions for the meeting you can post a comment to this thread or follow us on twitter @myfibroblog.  For more information about arthritis in the United Arab Emirates, follow @UAEArthritis on Twitter, Emirates Arthritis Foundation on Facebook, and visit their website Emirates Arthritis Foundation.

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On May 15th 2010, there will be a meeting in support of Fibromyalgia at Organic Foods and Cafe, located at The Dubai Mall.  This event is hosted by Emirates Arthritis Foundation will take place at 10:30 am and there will be a tour of the gluten foods that the Organic Foods and Cafe offers.  I hope that people that are affected by Fibromyalgia will turn out, and love ones of people will also come to show their support for people with Fibromyalgia.

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This is a brief interview I had the other day with Katrina Thornley, Patient Support Director at Emirates Arthritis Foundation.

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Last weekend the Emirates Arthritis Foundation held a Stress Management Workshop, and it was a lot of fun.  As people with Fibromyalgia know, stress can be a big trigger for a flare.  This stress can be physical or mental, or a combo of both.  It was really nice to hear people talking about how we can manage some of this stress, and to start listening to our bodies.  I know I can be one of the first ones, to forget to listen to my body and before I know it, I am having a major flare.  So, it was great to listen about going back to basics and start to listen to my body again.

One topic that kept coming up was remembering to breath, and relax.  I know we all breath, because if we didn’t we would not be alive any longer.  The breath that they were talking about was taking that time to listen to your breath and have some really deep breathes.   If we would remember this every time we are in a stressful situation, I bet we would not be as stressed after the event.  So a big thank you to Emirates Arthritis Foundation for the Stress Management Workshop, and reminding me to breath again.

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On March the 12th the Emirates Arthritis Foundation will be hosting the 3rd Annual 5K Walkathon at Dubai Festival City. All the proceeds will go to the Emirates Arthritis Treatment fund.  With your support we can help make a difference in people’s life through education, awareness, and supporting patients in the UAE with their expensive medication (as much as 70,000AED per year/ per patient).

The Foundation needs help in many ways, they need help in getting the word out about the event, they need runners/walkers, they need volunteers to help on the day of the event, and craft people to sell items at the craft fair taking place at Dubai Festival City. If you are a company that can help with t-shirts, water for the runner/walkers, or anything that you can think of that will help make the day special, please do.

Runners/Walkers the foundation needs you to help to get people to sponsor you for the walk. The target for this year is for each runner/walker to collect 5,000AED.  If you can collect donations of 5,000AED or more you will receive a 100AED Mall voucher. Please download the collection sheet and get busy collecting.

Arthritis affects 1 in 5 people worldwide. The average age of Arthritis sufferer is 43 years old.  It is not just about old people but young people including children, suffer can suffer from this debilitating disease.  Not only affecting the joints, but skin, eyes, lungs and hearts.

We lost 2 children to Arthritis last year.  We hope in 2010 we can make a difference through education, awareness and supporting patients in the UAE with their expensive medication (as much as 70,000 AED per year/per patient).

We can only do this though with your support. Therefore we would like to set a target of 5000 AED per participant.  Please ask your friends, families and colleagues to help a fantastic cause.

All sponsorship forms and funds need to be submitted by the 18^th March 2010, for press purposes.

If you would like to know more about the foundation please see our website www.arthritis.ae or call +971 42317470.

Thank you for your support in advance.

Emirates Arthritis Foundation

Please print out the Sponsorship Form and start helping Emirates Arthritis Foundation

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