Hello friends --Happy Fourth of July (Independence Day) to those of you in the United States!Independence Day is the perfect day to tell you about a new program I'm working on: Patients Getting Paid. I stumbled upon a whole industry of opportunities for patients. No kidding - totally stumbled. Companies are looking for patients to help with everything from commenting on their marketing materials to sitting on their patient advisory boards, to working on social media, and writing articles about our experiences as patients. For instance, I am now the MS Facebook Community Manager for a large online healthcare information company. I'm also sending in "tips and tricks" videos to another online health info company - all about how I'm dealing with MS! Who knew this stuff existed? Not me - but now that I do know - I want to share this information with you. I also want to identify LEGIT work-from-home opportunities outside the patient advocacy realm to provide ongoing gigs. Being able to actually work from home every day, where I can lay down when I need to, or schedule doctors appointments whenever works, has made all the difference in the world to managing my MS - and to being able to generate income. I feel really lucky to have first overheard someone talking about how they were doing it - then learning more and elbowing my way in! Now I want to share what I've learned so you can do the same thing. Before I spend a TON of time compiling all the information either in an ebook or a course or a membership site (haven't decided which format is best yet - I'll be surveying the PGP community soon), I want to try to gauge the interest level for something like this. So - if you are, in fact, interested, head over to the Patients Getting Paid email list sign up page to receive future information. If I get enough signups, I'll know it's worth my time and limited energy to work on putting together a program.Hope to see a lot of sign ups. I'm so psyched about this. It's literally changed my life and my bottom line. I want the same for YOU. Feel free to share this with anyone that might be interested. This isn't just for MS'ers - it's for all chronically ill patients who could benefit from learning this information.Warmly -- Kathy#FUMS 

Sometimes it helps the stress, just to say "F-U-M-S"