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YOU GO, GIRL!!!! Hugs 'n love...... Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Stan or Joan Snyder <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 10:24 AM Subject: Update-collagen injections & PD Day Happenings >Hello to all- things around here have been happening to fast & furiously >that I can hardly take a breath. First-the collagen injections: >Yesterday at 7am, I arrived at Peoria Day Surgery Center. to have skin >cells harvested to grow my own collagen. While it was no walk in the >park-it was certainly easier than giving birth to a 10 lb boy! Dr. >Michael Vidas is certainly a skillful and caring man-but he stopped >short of granting my wish to have liposuction while he was cutting! I >had to settle for a "tummy tuck," as he harvested alot of skin to grow >lots of collagen (he believes in the more is better philosophy!) and >today I'm just a bit sore-w/24 staples in my tummy. This morning at 8:30 >am, I met Dr. Vidas, Gina Morris (my tv buddy & her cameraman at Dr. >Vidas' office. There she filmed alot of tape of me, my husband & the >dr., got alot of questions asked and answered, and filmed them as they >put a fiber-optic camera up my nose & down the back of my throat and >they also filmed the video tape of my vocal chords behaving as they >shouldn't. She got the dr.'s permission to come into the operating room >w/ her cameraman to film the actual injections in 2-3 weeks. To her >credit & that of her cameraman, neither of them got sick & both were >fascinated by the process! I'd like to thank Margaret Tuchman for her >list response to Rosemary-I printed it out and and gave it to Gina >Morris so that she can have facts to go along w/ her stories. > Now, to our plans for PD awareness day-Thanks once again to Margaret >Tuchman & the Tuchman Foundation for PD research, we have been >collecting moneys to underwrite our Art Exhibit. We are getting such a >great response that I am revising my original budget & we are going to >offer more to make this a real draw for Chillicothe & the surrounding >areas; more of an EVENT! i received a phone call yesterday from Preston >Jackson, an internationally known artists and jazz guitarist that he is >available & happy to play music for our event. Just having his name on >our advertisements will draw a large part of our target crowd.We are >delighted to offer jazz because Claude Scott-the man & teacher whose >battle w/ PD are the subject of this exhibit, loved jazz. One of my >girlfriends in Peoria is a very skilled caterer and she has offered to >cater the event w/ dips, veggies, cheeses, and finger sandwiches, for a >nominal fee which I will be able to decide better after seeing the >publicity as it goes out in the two weeks prior to the event. Tom Kelly >& his wife are making up T-shirts that say "There's nothing wrong with >me (my husband, my wife, my mom, my daughter etc.) that a cure for PD >won't fix!" These will be available to be ordered. Another girlfriend is >painting whites sweatshirts w/ a pink tulip on navy blue varsity letters >that say PD. Yet another project is making navy blue ribbons looped like >the aids red ribbon, yet tied with a silver bow to symbolize the older >PWP & early onsetters united in our battle against this disease. As for >publicity, the local newspaper will be doing two stories about the event >plus run ads. The mayor will make a proclimation-Official PD Awareness >Day at the next city council meeting so that will make all the area >newspapers. the Peoria Paper will be doing a story on their things to Go >& Do page. Tom Kelly, Jane Scott & I will be interviewed in the studio >of Gina's TV station on the Saturday before the show. This is what we >have for now; I will send further updates as events warrant! Thanks for >your continuing prayers for our success! > > >-- >Joan E. Snyder (47-8-10) <[log in to unmask]> >"In the depths of winter I finally learned there >was in me an invincible summer" Albert Camus >http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm >