Japman Bajaj

You may know that for the past few years, I’ve been par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Stroll for Liver, an event by the Cana­dian Liver Foun­da­tion that began in Ottawa after the unex­pected death of a close friend’s cousin in 2005.

At the time, Trisha Nag­pal was 18 years old — not to men­tion, a pop­u­lar youth leader and excep­tional stu­dent  — and had devel­oped liver dis­ease, and no one could fig­ure out why. Many of the symp­toms of Liver Dis­ease are so prim­i­tive (i.e swollen feet), that the signs often go ignored or unno­ticed. In Trisha’s case, it took just 11 days from the day she was admit­ted till she even­tu­ally suc­cumbed to the dis­ease. Read her full story here.

Fur­ther­more, Liver Dis­ease patients are com­monly sterotyped as drug or alco­hol abusers. In real­ity, these are just two of the over 100 causes of liver disease.

I under­stand that in these tough finan­cial times, we are pick­ing the char­i­ties we sup­port with greater scrutiny. If you are unable to sup­port finan­cially, send me a quick email or note with a nice mes­sage, and I’ll be sure to share it with the fam­ily. Emo­tional sup­port is often just as impor­tant as finan­cial support.

Please click here to make your dona­tion. If you wish to donate in cash as opposed to credit card, send me a note on my con­tact form, and I’ll see if there’s a way we can facil­i­tate that! My goal is $1000.00, though I’m hop­ing to far sur­pass that. Feel free to pass on this link to any­one you think might be inter­ested. And of course, if you want to take part your­self, you can do that as well!

Thank you so much for your time.