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This is a copy of the email I sent to all the members of the Subcommittee on Labor,Health& Human Services, Education. Senator Harlan Specter (R-PA) Chairman. This is the group who will hear MJF's testimony on Thursday. (Parent Committee of this group is the Senate Commission on Appropriations), SH-216 (Senate Hearing number 216) Sept. 14, 2000 9:30 a.m. Please contact these persons plus your own State Senators and House of Representatives and ask their support. just me, Marjorie >Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:19:55 -0400 >To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], >[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], >[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], >[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], >[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], >[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], >[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] >From: "Marjorie L. Moorefield" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: SH-216 Stem Cell Research > > > >Ladies and Gentlemen: > >When you meet on Thursday in SH-216- Stem Cell >Research -and you listen to MJF's testimony, >please remember that MJF represents,not only himself, >but thousands of Patient's with Parkinson's in the USA. >Many from your Home States. > >Many of us would like to testify in front of you, >but you couldn't understand us anyway, >because Parkinson's disease has > caused us to speak "Parkinese". > We feel we are speaking clearly >and distinctly, but everyone tells us we are not. > > We think we are smiling at you, in our minds eye we are, >but everyone tells us we now have a mask for a face. > >Many of us would like to testify in front of you, >but we are too shy to go out in public anymore. >If forced to do so, we sit on our hands , >or grasp our jackets to stop our tremors. > >We "Parkies" are trapped in our bodies >with intellect and memory intact, but physically >unable to do the simplest things, like tie our shoes, > or button our shirts, or feed ourselves. > >Parkinson's disease is not the only chronic illness > which Stem Cell Research will help cure. >Please listen carefully to MJF on Thursday, >and remember the thousands upon thousands, >of chronically ill persons, >who are with him in spirit. >We are all counting on you. > >just me, >Marjorie L. Moorefield >Fort Lauderdale, Florida >33317-6605