ITSAN is 6 Years Old!

ITSAN is 6 Years Old!

View this email in your browser We Celebrate 6 Years of Service to the Suffering!  Six years ago today, ITSAN was formed! Please take a moment to look closely at this picture. It is quite fitting for the work of ITSAN as we face stormy seas daily to help the hurting, while raising awareness with the medical community. Thousands in the TSW/RSS support groups were sinking in despair until they were rescued. ITSAN itself struggles to make it from month to month and has only made it this far due to the dedicated team effort from a handful of sacrificial people. We thank everyone who volunteers their time and the small number of awesome donors keeping us afloat.  The hard core truth is that every time we get low on funds, we wonder if we will make it another year to continue this crucial work. We truly need more active "rowers" on deck out of the thousands of support group members. Please commit to financially supporting this mission on a regular basis as the active few of us cannot continue to row this very full boat alone. The struggle is real. We are feeling the burn-out and asking for funds often is not our desire at all. Our basic budget currently has enough funds for two more months. We also want to send two reps to the May 2018 AAD conference. Will you join the team and grab an oar so we can go on while building the bridge to the medical community?  How you can help: *Commit to donating on a regular basis even if just $10 a month. Our site donation page was recently updated to make it very easy to give by our board member, Steve, who never asks for a dime for the long hours of work he has done. If everyone in our groups would do this, we would sail through the year without another plea for fund! How nice that would be. *Get an RSS Activist Kit from Jodie Ohr and follow through with it. She put a lot of time and effort into this so you all could have bullet point steps to action for lasting change!   DONATE NOW! Your donation is tax-deductible. If you prefer to donate by a check in the mail, please send to this address. Susan Ryza c/o ITSAN Treasurer 234 17th St. Santa Monica, Ca 90402   If you ever shop on Amazon.com, please take a minute to select ITSAN as your favorite charity in the Amazon Smile program. ITSAN will receive 0.5% of every purchase you make and every amount helps! On your first visit to AmazonSmile, you simply need to select International Topical Steroid Addiction Network as your designated charity to allow ITSAN to receive donations from your purchases. Once you do that, be sure to choose AmazonSmile.com for future visits. Amazon will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make will result in a donation. Click on any AmazonSmile in this box to get started today! ITSAN appreciates your support! International Topical Steroid Addiction Network is a nonprofit charity formed to raise awareness about a condition called Red Skin Syndrome, also known as Topical Steroid Addiction or Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome. ITSAN Red Skin Syndrome Support has grown into a thriving world-wide online community where members share, comfort and encourage one another. ITSAN.org serves an International population as a resource for the individual, the caregiver, and the healthcare provider. View our 2016 report here. Our mission is to raise awareness of Red Skin Syndrome and support affected individuals with a goal of prevention, early detection, accurate diagnosis, and proper treatment of Red Skin Syndrome.     Please find support during your topical steroid withdrawal in the Facebook RSS support group. ITSAN does not medically advise and only permits sharing of personal experiences. Anything advised or suggested by  support group members is not necessarily endorsed by ITSAN.   Copyright © 2018 ITSAN, All rights reserved. You are receiving this e-mail because you are a member of the official ITSAN website and opted in to receiving information from us. We are mindful of the amount of e-mail our members receive and only send periodic notifications and newsletters. ITSAN email address: info@itsan.org   Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.