How helping Amber
will benefits others...
Amber Soffea has
always been exceptional, both medically and personally. From the
materials in this portfolio, sponsors will come to understand that Amber
has been afflicted for some years by an as-yet-unnamed, perhaps unique
immunological illness that is chiefly known by the treatments to which
that illness responds. The years without complete diagnosis indicate the
uniqueness of her medical situation.
While much of this
lacking diagnosis stems from the inability of physicians to proceed with
such work without adequate funding, the sheer remoteness of her illness
accounts for the remaining absence of any explanation of why she is ill.
However, one risks
committing the deepest of injustices by viewing Ambers exceptional being
only in knowing her by her illness. Personally Amber stands only to
serve others. For Amber, this service stems from her deep, spiritual
faith that operates as a guiding principle in helping others. Amber
understands her diagnosis, treatment, and eventual recovery only as
functions in helping and serving. Indeed, as explained below, Ambers
diagnosis and treatment have already helped and served others. Further
funding for additional research, diagnosis, and treatment will only
continue this help and service. Finally, Ambers personal, axiomatic
understanding of her role in this world guarantees that when made whole,
she will only continue to help and serve others.
Amber's Help and
Service to Date
Physicians in Europe and the United States have already come to
recognize the uniqueness of Amber's medical condition. However, as a
mythical beast such as a unicorn is understood in such concrete terms as
a horse with one horn thus identified by its distinguishing, if diverse,
body parts so has Ambers condition helped Western medical science to
better understand at minimum the component parts of Ambers illness, if
only by its separate (but still probably inseparable) immunological,
digestive, and neurological symptoms. As a result of this understanding,
Ambers illness has been the subject of publications both at the National
Institute of Health and abroad. Individual physicians have learned from
the experimental protocols used to treat Amber. These protocols have
been instructive in treating such conditions as Crohn's Disease,
Multiple Sclerosis, AIDS, and many other diseases. Those protocols have
then been used to treat other patients, and so on. The sacrifices made
to both treat Amber and that have perhaps prolonged her illness have, to
date, largely only been of service to others.
The Help Provided
by Continued Diagnosis and Treatment
Amber, for her part, remains ill. The sacrifices and treatments applied
to date notwithstanding, Amber deserves to be made whole. The only
reasons why Amber has not achieved a fullness of her health to date have
been a lack of funding and medical care willing, under financial
constraints, to press forward to the end. Apart from this, only what
treatment protocols do make Amber more functional are known.
However, as the
foregoing indicates, funding further work for Amber can only operate to
further benefit medical science. The physicians she is working with now,
as shown in her other portfolio contents, are among the best in the
world. Those physicians merely point out the material imperative of this
world that in order to fund additional work, money is required. But
given payment of those physicians tuition, they are driven to learn not
only how to help Amber, but from the experience gained from her unique,
diverse condition, to be able to help others. The expanded understanding
of how to help others medically has, perhaps, no worthier competitor.
This is the purpose in helping Amber now.
The Help to Others When Amber is Cured
However, it is but Ambers nature to help others, regardless of her own
physical condition. Whether in the depths of her illness or the peak of
her health under treatment, Amber has provided years of volunteer
service to terminally and critically ill patients with an understanding
found only by one who has experienced it herself. She has provided
similar service in the rescue and rehabilitation of cats, dogs, horses,
and many other animals. She has written and published while weighing
less than many 10 year olds and otherwise unable to walk. She has run a
successful and profitable organic gardening business. She has then
donated proceeds to her church, other charity organizations, and to
individuals who probably will never know the suffering Amber herself has
endured.
Helping Amber now is only on effort in helping her to serve others.
Ambers faithful determination to so serve others is the driving reason
she has permitted herself to survive to the present day. Perhaps
prospective sponsors, by virtue of their own generous desire also to
help and serve, feel some comity with this all-too-uncommon modern
worldview. However, Amber simply cannot meet this goal without the help
of others. Sadly, the only factor lacking in sufficing her to have
complete diagnosis and treatment is funding. Amber understands the duty
she has to assist others in their deepest need. She seeks sponsors with
this same understanding.
