Dear Ivan, I can understand your frustration. You did a wonderful job on your testimony and it will go into the record. But I doubt if Jim Cordy has people from the media calling him for interviews either. Michael J. Fox will get the attention, which in turn, gets the attention to PD which is the most important thing! My frustration comes from the fact that I spent days hunting down people from all over the country to call those Senators (including mine) who were on the committee to attend and only a few of those Senators showed up. And I'm listening to Sen. Harkin's frustration with the Senate for deleting Stem Cell Research from the bill. Just wanted you console you with the knowledge you have company with your frustrations! Keep the faith! nina Ivan M Suzman wrote: > ^^^^^^ WARM GREETINGS FROM ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-) > Ivan Suzman 49/39/36 [log in to unmask] :-) > Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 59 deg. F :-) > ******************************************************************** > I am sitting here feeling like going back to bed and hiding. Maybe its > the dark foggy weather, > I just about passed out typing and phoning and typing and phoning, and I > did JUST what I was asked to do--DESCRIBE my symptoms in detail. > > But noone from a sngle TV or radio or nbewspaper has contacted me. I > don't even > know if ANYBODY read ,u state,emt except the people on the PIEN list. > > Where was PAN? I called them and got someone named Becky andshe didn't > know > what was going on. > > PAN has asked me to be their action alert first contact person forMaine > so when the table is > turned they just tell me I'm admirable and seem to ignore me. > > I guess I'll give up my bad mood if I can buat Iam sure feeling upset. > > Surely the powerful organizations KNEW my testimony was in the > packet--and so WHAT > do I do now? > > Or better yet, can't my statement get some MEDIA attention? 15 pages > double- > spaced as requested and a full-page Table of COntents. > > I feel used and exhausted. > > Ivan :-(