Your Help is Needed - Campaign for Rita's Tattoo!!!

[Lulu54]

Cosmobirdy started a post about tattoos  here this week - the thread is at

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Tattoos/show/1209052


I have already sent an Email to LaINK about her wish, and hope that more of you will join me in writing to them.  

If we could get Rita's  dream tatt done, and the story of MS out there in a combination - that would be great!!!

Please jump in and help to let LAink's casting group know that we think this is an excellent idea by sending them an email.  We have so many excellent writers here, this is a chance to use those powers of persuasion for a very good cause.

Unfortunately MH won't let us post email addresses on this open form, but you can get their email address through  their website -

http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/la-ink/casting.html


If you have problems or a question, drop me a PM.

Also, do me a favor and help to keep this post bumped up for a few days so everyone gets a chance to read it and respond.  

BTW - if you had a tattoo done to symbolize MS, what would it be?    Give it some thought and share it here if you wish!  I'll tell you mine in a bit.

Lu

[johnnymutt]

I'll get something written up for them later tonight, I believe it would be a great story. Great idea Lulu.

[Cosmobirdy]

Thank you for anything you are willing to do for me, even though we have never even "met" yet!  I really appreciate you being willing to take the time to help me with my dream... you know, even tho it is still far fetched, it is fun to have something like this to think about.... :)  

What a cool way would this be to help get awareness of MS out to some more people, too!!  And even if it never pans out into anything, at least maybe the show will get some new fans, so everyone wins in the end anyway!  (BTW, I'm in OH, too - I don't know where Ada is, but I'm in Southwest OH.)

Have a great evening!
Rita

[Lulu54]

Rita,
I think if you head north on I-75 and take an exit up around the Lima area and head east you will run into Ada.  Am I close to right, Johnny?

Maybe when you get that tattoo you and I will take a road trip north to show it off.

L

[johnnymutt]

That's exactly right L. I was just in Dayton a week and a half ago, at the bariatric center, It's just about an 1-1/2 hour drive.


RIta, no need for thanks here, it is my pleasure to be involved. A tattoo can be a very intimate experience, and it is most definitely a tag of permanence that signifies something that holds a semblance of meaning to you. Sometimes a tattoo is for show, just to be cool, but most people I know that have them, myself included, have a very personal story that their tattoo reflects. So, like I was saying, it is my pleasure to somehow, no matter how little of an involvement, see that you can accomplish this feat.

Best of luck with this outcome, I'm getting excited to see if it is a possibility. I also have some friends that are very well established airbrush artists. I'm going to pick at them to see if they may be able to help get a foot in the door, hehe.

Have a great week!
Johnny

[Cosmobirdy]

Lulu,

Thanks for telling me where Ada is - and if we pull this off, I think we will DEFINITELY have to take a road trip up there, lol!!

Johnny,
Again, thank you for all your kindess and help ... and for understanding how much this would mean to me.  You said that you also know some well established airbrush artists, so if this doesn't pan out with LA Ink, maybe you could steer me to somebody else that could also do a beautiful job with my special concept ... :)  

If I end up going local, I would have to do ALOT of research and talk to alot of people - cause I just want it to look as beautiful on my body as it does in my head, you know?  You can't just walk into any old tattoo shop and get that...  Plus, the shop has to be meticulous about sterile technique - the last thing I need is a big infection while I'm on Tysabri - my poor neuro would have a heart attack, lol!!

But, again, I just want to say thanks to all of you, just for letting me dream this big right now.... :)  Winter was very hard on me in alot of ways, and it has really been uplifting to just think about this possibility, you know?  Sometimes, big dreams, even if they don't work out in the end, are good for your soul ... :)  

Laura had me write them a letter also, so I sent that this morning.  (If anyone wants to see it, let me know and I can PM it to you.)

Gotta head out to another doctor appt - talk to you all again soon... Hope each of you has a wonderful week - today is starting off sunny, so that's always nice!

Bye for now,
Rita  

[PastorDan]

If you make that trip to Ada, make sure I hear about it.  It's a ways west of me, but near enough that I'd give it some serious thought.  I'm in Caledonia, which is between Marion and Galion.