This fundraiser is to spread awareness of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks and raise funds to support the Spinal Leak foundation in an effort to improve the quality of life and further the research for CSF Leaks. This illness is invisible but can be so devastating to those affected by them. Imagine spending your whole day in bed. Sounds like a full-time employee’s dream, right? But imagine you’re in bed all day, completely flat. When you sit up, the pain inside your head is so bad, that most compare it to being hit in the back of the head with a bat. What about the ringing in the ears? So loud and so consistent that it drives many to helplessness from the incessant screech of the tone with no relief. Don’t forget the racing heart any time, and I mean ANY TIME, you sit up. This leaves you breathless, dizzy, even trembling and maybe faint. Your heart rate rises more than 30 beats per minute, maybe even past 100. Eating and showering do it too. Also, your nauseated and vomiting like you just woke up with the flu, but you’ve woken up with that same “flu” for 7 years (sometimes decades). So because of this, you can’t est much and you’ve lost weight and nothing fits, and you can’t keep food or sometimes fluids down. The only thing that keeps these symptoms at bay are being flat in your bed, which now feels like a prison, watching the world go by through a horizontal lens; your kid’s school years and graduation, holidays, major life events. Supporting the Spinal Leak Foundation will help advance research and support conferences for doctors in the field to present and discuss cases in hopes that one day we can end the suffering of everyone who faces this illness. Please consider any donation to help patients like ME.