Amazing Opportunity to Win a Luxury Five Bedroom English Home.

Truly amazing opportunity to win a luxury home, ideally set in the Sussex countryside and yet only a fifty minute train journey from London. Ideal Vacation Spot for you, your family and friends. Every entry to the competition gives support to the Hughes Syndrome Foundation - working to promote awareness of Hughes Syndrome also known as Antiphospholipid.

(PRWEB) September 30, 2004 -- This five-bedroom barn conversion, set in 1/3 acre over-looking the South Downs is the home of Doreen and husband Mark. They converted it from a run down barn in-to a fine family home.

It is not everyday that one raffles ones home, indeed, it was the uncommonness that led Doreen and Mark to the enterprise.

Recently diagnosed with Hughes Syndrome, also known as Antiphospholipid and Sticky Blood, Doreen, with the support of Mark, is deeply committed to ensuring more people are made aware of Hughes Syndrome and what better way than choose an unusual undertaking that captures peoples interest.

As Doreen explained, without doubt, the journey that led us to this raffle will be familiar to many. I struggled to obtain a diagnosis for the hotchpotch of weird symptoms I had endeavoured to live with for ten years. I had seen doctor after doctor to no avail. Most prescribed anti- depressants, one suggested I pull myself together; another prescribed seasickness tablets and wanted to know why I was so prejudiced against accepting psychosomatic illnesses. I was not only battling against debilitating symptoms -- chronic fatigue, cramped & painful muscles, memory loss, cluster migraines, light headedness, but also against the humiliation of seeing doctors who clearly believed I was wasting their time as it was 'all in my mind. I am sure you will understand when I say it was like living through a nightmare.

Eventually, my health declined to such an extent that I was no longer able to carry on the demanding job I loved and had worked so hard to attain. I was witnessing the quality of my life dwindle without being able to do anything to stop the rot or indeed convince anyone in the medical profession to come to my aid.

Then, by chance, I watched the City Hospital program and it featured an article on Hughes Syndrome. I cannot fully explain the euphoria I felt as I listened to, first, the BBC presenter, and then, Dr Hughes convey the symptoms. In describing the symptoms, they were describing all I had been going through; they were describing me. Archimedes and his discovery of water displacement had nothing on my triumph of discovery at that moment.

I have since seen Dr Hughes and strange though it may sound, I felt delighted and relieved when he confirmed Hughes syndrome. It is not that I have masochistic tendencies, far from it, but to finally have a doctor treat me with respect and provide me with a name for the miscellany of symptoms was a great relief. Now I know the name I feel I am again in control of my own body. I can focus my attention on obtaining as much information as possible and fighting the effects of the syndrome.

What was more, I owe Dr Hughes even more gratitude, for it was as a result of his concern with a cerebral aneurysm that showed on my MRI scan, that I received the necessary remedial treatment. He referred me onto Neurology and consequently, I had major brain surgery to clip the aneurysm.

Hughes Syndrome is a major cause of strokes in younger people and of course, the rupturing of a cerebral aneurysm invariably results in the same condition. With that in mind, it is a sobering thought to consider where I would be had I not discovered Hughes Syndrome and Dr Hughes.

Left with a consuming compulsion to let the world know of Hughes Syndrome -it is tragic that so common a syndrome is so unknown. It was clear that something punchy was needed to get peoples attention and we believe we have found it in raffling our home on the Internet. With any luck it will lead to at least one person experiencing that same elation and delight of discovery I felt when I watched the BBC program and who like me will then go on to obtain that elusive diagnosis".

An equally impressive barn conversion in this prime location only a 50 minute train journey from central London could set you back as much as 750,000 but here is a chance of making it your own for 100 or you might be doubly fortunate and receive one of the 100 free tickets that will be issued.

This truly is an amazing opportunity to win a beautiful and unique home and contribute to the Hughes Syndrome Foundation. If Doreen and Mark reach their target HSF will receive a fantastic 17000!

Further details of the house and how to buy tickets are available at:www.barnfree.net.

Buy your ticket on line or send a cheque made payable to Barnfree with your name, address and Email address to:-

Barnfree,PO Box 56,Petworth,GU28 9ZR. Confirmation and entry questions will be emailed back to you.

To find out more about Hughes Syndrome, often misdiagnosed as MS, log on the barnfree.net site and click on the Hughes Syndrome text ribbon for a short precise description, or for a detailed description, click on the HSF logo.

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