This is probably in the wrong place, but just wanted to wish everybody a merry Christmas! I hope you get the very best holiday you all can, rest and recover, and as many (and more) positive things happen to you as possible. If not, we’re always one day closer to the next study, spontaneous improvement, or the day axolotl and awor cure us!
Very merry Chritsmas everyone!
Thanks for the positive message @jinstewart. I’ll certainly ask 
for a cure for us 
I would like to also wish everyone a happy Christmas and holidays. I hope those able to enjoy it have a lovely time and those of us not so lucky manage as well as possible during what I know personally can be a difficult time.
Secondly, I would like to say a big thank you to our fantastic moderator team who do a wonderful, unenviable job, and the regular members here treating each other with kindness and offering support that means so much to many people. I would like to thank my friend @awor for his tireless dedication to this issue which has kept me going and inspired to give what I can myself.
I strongly believe we’ve seen very positive moves here at the community level and feel our community and organisational efforts have made great progress since this time last year. We have promising projects underway and great people willing to help take us forward in all directions. On the scientific side, we have seen clear declarations in very recent literature reviews that the broad effects of this condition are very real and evidentially supported. It is my hope that the important epigenetic investigation likely to publish early next year will help inform our understanding of the driving factors in the persistent health problems across the wide range of affected bodily sites and systems in PFS patients.
I feel this positive groundwork will be extremely valuable in getting us a lot further in 2019.
Thank you for your support and best wishes x
This might be a good opportunity for me to say thankyou to everyone here. When I found myself here in the summer, I was in a bad place and attribute a lot of my ability to think positively about this to the support that I received, from the replies to my first posts to the private message I received 5 minutes ago.
I won’t write a list of names but I’d like to thank everyone who helped me to this point and to those who will help me later.
My Christmas wish is of course for good health for all of us. I have high hopes for the future, for me and for you.
Christmas is very much about celebrating thankfulness.
I would like to thank @axolotl for his relentless work in managing our community, for his friendship, for building our soon to launch survey, and for spending countless hours with me in engaging the road ahead, all while feeling miserable beyond imagination. Please hang in there Axo.
I would like to thank our truly amazing and wonderful moderator team, who have transformed this online community from a simple website into a warmly welcoming and caring refuge for any sufferers who have sought comfort here. Thank you guys, for taking such good care of our community.
I would like to thank the Post-Finasteride Foundation, and specially John, for his work and commitment to our cause, and for siding with us in this battle.
Most importantly, I would like to thank each and every one of you for keeping up the fight in your daily lives, despite ours often being the ugliest disease ever known to mankind. I thank you for not giving up, for being there for your beloved ones, for each other, and for all of us in fighting this fight. Everyone makes a difference. Please be strong, we all need you.
Christmas is also the season of hope. I hope for us all, that this site will not be necessary anymore one day, and that we may all go back to our lives. I hope that 2019 will bring us closer to that goal.
With care,
Awor
I second Awor’s message. I’m grateful for Awor, the foundation, and Axo who has been a great addition to the forum lately. Mew as well for his contributions since he hasn’t been around lately. Lots of others too including doctors that have taken an interest in researching the condition.
A big 
to everything that was already said.
Happy Christmas Eve everyone, keep the heads held high, we’ll show this disease who’s boss in 2019! 
