Re: conference/newsletter update/letter to washpost
I look forward to reading your article, Delaine, in the next newsletter. How nice of you to give up your time at the conference to Bob and Don, but perhaps this is better for you as you have so much going on right now. Also, for sure, your newsletter item will reach a bigger audience this way.Your letter to the Washington Post was great and I'm sorry they didn't print it. Mine was accepted, but not printed - so they have got an e-mail (one of many to go out) for not honouring their word on that - we'll see what happens. We've gotta keep trying. best wishes. June in Toronto (beb/meige)
Re: Excellent letter
Excellent letter, Delaine!!! I hope it gets results.Sally in chilly North Idaho
Re: conference/newsletter update/letter to washpost
Delaine, so sorry to hear that you are not going to be able to make the conference this year. My wife and I are probably going to go as Mary Lou has asked me to head up the Sunday morning panel discussions and give a talk on insurance coverage and medicare issues. This is something that I am sure yu could cover probably even better than I so if you wanted to do it, I am sure that she wouldn't mind. Besides, can you imagine me trying to limit myself to ten or fifteen minutes. impossible. Anyway, it looks like we will be going even though Houston is a long way from NH but I missed seeing all the friends I made on the BB last year and you are one of them.By the way, I really enjoyed your response to Buzz Lightyear. It was excellent. You mentioned that mine was published. Did you actually see it in the paper or did you just think that based on the EMail I posted. I have not heard one way or the other and since I don't read, I certainly wouldn't be getting the Post in NH...Alan
Re: conference/newsletter update/letter to washpost
Alan, Nilda posted a link to The Washington Post today and we read your letter there.June in Toronto
Re: conference/Shirley can help
June answered your question. It was such a great letter and I'm so glad it got published. I sent mine to the letters@washpost.com several days ago and re-sent it today at the health@washpost.com. I hope they get dozens and dozens and decide to do more of our letters or an article.
I really wish I could come to the conference just to see my buddies like you. I really didn't need the expense of going to the conference. I'm trying to help my daughter and granddaughter and this herbal thing I've committed to doing for awhile is really rough on the pocket book. We have a trip to my husband's high school reunion in June in South Carolina. The end of March we have another trip planned to see my son in Jefferson, TX and taking Rusty's parents with us and stop in Hot Springs on the way back. I also will have to get a friend to take me to Knoxville for the state wide meeting that Mary Lou is doing in April. We will make it a long weekend and visit some friends in Gatlinburg and have some fun. I really appreciate your offer to let me do your spot. You sweet thang! I am just as long winded as you....maybe worse. I talk so slow it takes me 10 minutes just to say my name and where I come from, bless your heart. So you do have an advantage because you are not from the south and talk faster. I'm really sorry I'm going to miss hearing you. Shirley can time you and wave a flag when the timer goes off so you'll know that your time is up. I've never been to Philly, so who knows maybe I'll see you in 2003.
Re: conference/Shirley can help
Hi Delaine,
You mentioned Jefferson, Tx. I have a brother and his wife, and their two married sons, and grandchildren who live there.
Evelyn, who has been having dry eye, and terrible shoulder, neck and back pain.
Re: Stop and say hi
Tell them to stop by the Kennedy Manor and say Howdy. They may already know each other. My son is the greatest with personality and hospitality plus and knows almost everyone there already. He has been one of the sweetest gifts God ever gave me.
Re: Stop and say hi
Delaine, You could ask if they know the Dale Downs family. I'll try to send an email with the info you posted.
Evelyn
Re: conference/Shirley can help
That's awful, Evelyn. Did you say you have arthritis?
Re: conference/newsletter update/letter to washpost
great letter Delaine. But I think my point that i have been trying to make is how many people get or read the Washington Post? It is excellent that you and the rest are putting this guy in his place. Don't we need a broader audience?
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I agree, Kathy, that we need a broader audience, but at this stage in the game ANY audience awareness is better than we have been getting.June in Toronto (beb/meige) where we had snow overnight - its been so mild lately, this is ridiculous!
Re: conference/newsletter update/letter to washpost/June
We also had freezing weather and snow here, whereas it was mild before also. It explains the problems that were happening with my eyes. I hope my beautiful hydrangea bush didn't freeze. After it's only 2 blossoms last year, I was looking forward to it's cheerful show this year. I have it covered with a half polyester sheet, that i can't use because it scratches my skin.
--modified by kathy in Atlanta at Thu, Feb 28, 2002, 04:19:13
Re:letter to washpost size of audience
A broader audience would be nice, but I'll take whatever audience I can get. I would think that The Washington Post has a large circulation, but if only one person at a time will listen, we may reach the one person who needs to hear us. I hope we aren't seen as trying to put people in their place, but getting them to consider what it might be like to be in our place. We can't focus on how we object to cosmetic use, but how much we deserve to have a voice and have our story told. The foundation was created to find the undiagnosed, support the diagnosed and increase awareness and funding for research for better treatments, a cause and a cure. We can't accomplish that if we are bitter about the cosmetic use or pointing a finger at Allergan. We will accomplish more if we keep our eyes on what we are for and not what we are against. To get attention we do have to respond to articles and news stories. I'm still patiently waiting for the news paper article in my home town paper. It wasn't in Sunday's paper as they had told me it would be. It is a small county paper, but to me it is still important because there may be someone who needs to hear what I had to say and will benefit from my story or it may benefit our cause. I'm not going to give up on trying to get my message out there and I'm not going to worry about how big the audience is. You never know, what may seem small can lead to something bigger and more important. It gets frustrating, but we have to stay positive and never give up or think we can't make a difference one at a time. I do understand the point you are making. If you find a broader audience and they need a speaker or a writer, let me know and I'll be there for you.
Re: Re:letter to washpost size of audience/Delaine
Thanks, Delaine! I am not bitter about Botox's cosmetic use, but if each person who was having this treatment was also aware of us, I think that would help.Hmmm, how are we going to do that?
Also i keep thinking about that article in National Geo.; the one where they did a short portrait of zip code Beverly Hills and the frequent use of cosmetic botox use there. I think they need to follow up on this.
Who is the one person you are referring to? or are you just using "one" in the broader sense?
--modified by kathy in Atlanta at Thu, Feb 28, 2002, 04:31:11
Re: Re:letter to washpost size of audience/Delaine
The ONE I was referring to was each ONE of us making a difference OR some ONE out there needing to hear what we have to say. A perfect example of "ONE" was Mattie Lou. That is so weird to me that the National Geographic did an article like that. I agree with you that they should do one on the Medical reasons for BOTOX. I didn't mean to imply that you were bitter......We all have our moments....I was using that for all of us....including me.
Re: Re:letter to washpost size of audience/Delaine
Thanks for explaining that. I thought the Nat. Geo. article was weird also, they usually are not that superficial.
Re: conference/Delaine
Sorry I won't be meeting you at the conference. I was looking forward to it. Mary Lou called me last week and asked me to be on the patient panel on Sun discussing SSD. I wasn't planning to stay for Sun but now I will!
Kelly
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