OCF isn't part of the parade challenge. The 24 dollar one that you see on facebook etc. is Megan's birthday wish (she will be 24 Wednesday) for people to give to OCF and not stuff to her. More than that it is the same battle from month to month to keep everything above water, and donations via the OCF web store via PayPal or other means are always greatly appreciated.

Sorry it took so long to respond to you. I only get to the boards a few late nights each week these days to try and pick up any technical questions that others have been stumped on.

The battles are many, and the time is little. After posting tonight I have to finish a press release for tomorrow that (armed with information from Gillison and Sturgis) will beat back a bad recent publication out of Harvard that shows that vaccinating boys against HPV isn't a cost effective thing for anyone to do. Unfortunately the researchers are a couple of number crunching policy wonks, and it just goes to show, you can publish something out of a good institution like Harvard, and still get the argument and facts wrong. Since the battle for vaccination is now in the public dialog as much as it is at the FDA, we have to take a stand in the pubic arena, to get the right information out there. Besides, we have so many strong, long term posters here now, I feel very comfortable that people coming to the boards are getting good information without my minor input.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.