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I sent snail mail to Kruger and Farrell. If you want to do the same their email addresses are: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] Senator Carl Kruger Chair, New York State Senate Finance Committee 913 Legislative Office Building Albany, New York 12247 and Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell, Jr. Chair, Ways and Means Committee 923 Legislative Office Building Albany, New York 12248 RE: NEW YORK SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH LAW When I was a young woman I volunteered in the Spinal Cord Injury ward of a Long Beach California hospital. I remember wishing desperately that there was something that could be done to change the plight of the patients there. I learned that a spinal cord injury is about the worst thing that can happen to a person. Forty years ago there was no hope for people who had spinal cord injuries. Today I am an old woman suffering from Parkinson's disease and this experience of 14 years of difficulty moving has given me a glimpse of what it might be like to not be able to move at all. Although that day will come for me, I can still move now and really can't know what complete dependence and lack of mobility will be like. But I do know this: TODAY THERE IS HOPE FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY PATIENTS IF ONLY THE RESEARCH IS DONE. Spinal cord injury patients have suffered long enough and need help now, not another forty years from now. How can anyone NOT support the New York Spinal Cord Injury Research Law? Sincerely, Rayilyn Brown Past Director Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation Ray Rayilyn Brown Past Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn