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How This Auction Improves Lives
Your support of this auction is helping us to provide people with OI and their family members with answers to their questions, an educational website, and emotional support. Staff members respond to more than 6,000 inquiries each year, produce new information resources, and facilitate the operation of support groups across the country.
In addition, the OI Foundation plans to invest more than $1 million into OI research this year, in partnership with the Children's Brittle Bone Foundation. This total includes funding for three seed grants for basic and clinical studies, four Michael Geisman Research Fellowships, and an annual science meeting that brings together the top experts in the OI field. In addition, the OI Foundation supports the OI Registry and the Linked Clinical Research Centers (LCRC).
The 2009 OI Foundation Sports and Travel Auction has ended. We truly appreciate your participation! You are enabling us to make a real difference in the lives of the 25,000-50,000 children and adults nationwide who live with this genetic brittle bone disorder.
If you are a winning bidder, we will process your payment and ship your item(s) beginning the week of July 27. In the meantime, you will receive an e-mail from us confirming the final purchase price of your items.
Thank you for supporting our mission to improve the lives of people with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) through research to find treatments and a cure, education, awareness, and mutual support!
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Each Fracture Hurts as Much as the First
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder that causes bones to break or fracture very easily. A cough can break a rib; putting on a T-shirt can break an arm.
Young children with OI often have surgeries to insert rods into their legs to straighten and support the bones. Unfortunately, this surgery must be repeated every 2-3 years as a child grows. And, each surgery or fracture means days or weeks of immobilization, time away from school, isolation from peers, and painful therapy to strengthen bones and muscles.
Adults with OI also experience disruptions to their lives. Fractures don’t heal, hearing impairment is possible, and chronic pain is common. Other symptoms include respiratory difficulties and curvature of the spine.
There is no cure for OI yet. A child with OI is born every day. Between 25,000 - 50,000 people in the United States have OI.
