posted 26 February 2005 00:23            

I was told letters are equal to what is considered "testimony".. it just isn't stored in files forever and ever. But it serves the purpose and carries equal weight.

So, please feel free to drop these folks your thoughts on WHY we need insurance coverage.. and WHY we need our doctors protected (no names please).... and WHY we need our doctors to do what needs to be done concerning treatment, instead of being restricted to an outdated treatment protocol that has high failure rates.

Thanks for your support!

PS .. Letters should be in by March 8th, 2005.

allan.kittleman@senate.state.md.us,

delores_kelley@senate.state.md.us,

paula_colodny_hollinger@senate.state.md.us,

edward_kasemeyer@senate.state.md.us,

sandra_schrader@senate.state.md.us,

rona_kramer@senate.state.md.us,

rob_garagiola@senate.state.md.us,

john_hafer@senate.state.md.us,

donald_munson@senate.state.md.us,

alex_mooney@senate.state.md.us,

david_brinkley@senate.state.md.us,

larry_haines@senate.state.md.us,

norman_stone@senate.state.md.us,

andrew_harris@senate.state.md.us,

katherine_klausmeier@senate.state.md.us,

brian_frosh@senate.state.md.us,

jennie_forehand@senate.state.md.us,

sharon_grosfeld@senate.state.md.us,

leonard_teitelbaum@senate.state.md.us,

ida_ruben@senate.state.md.us,

john_giannetti@senate.state.md.us,

paul_pinsky@senate.state.md.us,

leogreen@senate.state.md.us,

nathaniel_exum@senate.state.md.us, ulysses_currie@senate.state.md.us,

gloria_gary_lawlah@senate.state.md.us,

thomas_v_mike_miller@senate.state.md.us,

thomas_mclain_middleton@senate.state.md.us,

roy_dyson@senate.state.md.us, john_astle@senate.state.md.us,

mailphilip_jimeno@senate.state.md.us,

james_degrange@senate.state.md.us,

janet_greenip@senate.state.md.us,

nancy_jacobs@senate.state.md.us,

robert_hooper@senate.state.md.us,

EJ_Pipkin@senate.state.md.us,

richard_colburn@senate.state.md.us,

lowell_stoltzfus@senate.state.md.us,

patrick_hogan@senate.state.md.us,

ralph_hughes@senate.state.md.us,

lisa_gladden@senate.state.md.us,

jim_brochin@senate.state.md.us,

joan_carter_conway@senate.state.md.us,

verna_jones@senate.state.md.us,

nathaniel_mcfadden@senate.state.md.us,

george_della@senate.state.md.us,

gwendolyn_britt@senate.state.md.us

posted 26 February 2005 00:29            

If not..

THANKS!!!!!

posted 26 February 2005 16:24            

Now we can just do a block copy and send ONE email to all the senators' names in the SEND line!

That's what I did for Penn & NY when I sent my letter from an Iowan; now I'm on a Penn. woman senator's mailing list. I've asked to be unsubscribed, but she's keeping me around! LOL.

I'll send my email tomorrow; time's up today.

posted 27 February 2005 15:10            

Please show the direct web link of this bill so we can read it first,
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and then send our email to ALL your enators.

Thanks; these 2 things go hand & hand; we wnt to sound intelligent when we email them.

Yeh, I know, brain fog will have to clear up so we can do this.....

posted 28 February 2005 12:31            

Cheryl has generously offered to put all the info on ONE site for us.

What a WONDERFUL idea. It sure saves MY big butt from having to jump back and forth.

THANKS CHERYL!!!

I will post the link on Lyme Info here when it is ready.

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If you get the choice to sit it out or dance...

posted 01 March 2005 16:59            

If any of you use Cheryl's that I got today in my digest form, their is an error....

If any of you have problems sending this to the LIST of ALL MARYLAND SENATORS, here is the reason why:

, Nancy Jacob

it's the COMMA BEFORE Nancy's name that is causing your email not to send, so DELETE the preceding comma as there are TWO , , that are together causing this to occur.

I sent a private email to Tincup & Rose for Cheryl at lymeinfo so they could each EDIT their list of names and correct this minor problem.

I tried for 30 minutes sending and finally discovered what happend .. a simple mistake.

I sent mine and copied Tincup & Rose/Cheryl.
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Way to go Tincup, all Marylanders, & the rest of us OUT - OF - STATERS wanting to make a difference so we can approach our OWN state's legislature next year!

posted 01 March 2005 17:18               

I see you just posted this just now, but I corrected the problem yesterday at the website. At least, I HOPE it's corrected! LOL Please let me know when you experienced this. Have you refreshed the website and still had the problem? I hope it's working now. Still need to write my own letter, so I haven't actually tried it.

Thanks,
Cheryl

posted 02 March 2005 15:05            

I haven't been back to your site to check it out...just wanted to alert you & others if they had problems, what the solution was so theirs would go.

Betty G., Iowa

posted 02 March 2005 15:28               

I haven't made any changes since correcting it on Monday, and I absolutely cannot find the problem now. Looks fine to me. I sure hope it's ok. Have you refreshed/reloaded the site?
http://www.lymeinfo.net/marylandlymedisease.html

posted 02 March 2005 15:38               

OK - I'm clearly not from the North - and politics generally gives me diarrhea...BUT I'm willing to do whatever I need to for THE CAUSE....even use my real, (gulp) name.

Wait! I'm hyperventilating.

But before I put forth the @#$% effort - is it gonna make a tinker's d#mn for a Texas gal to send her opinion to the yankee lawmakers?

I mean, it's not like I can threaten not to vote for them...or course I could like & tell them that "W" is one of my uncles twice removed & that I'll have him poo-poo all over any of their other state business.

I'll probably have the FBI or CIA watching me after that, 'cause you know I can't get through writing much of anything without cussing.

Anyway, just looking for an opinion....and continuing to bump up this topic for anyone just now pulling their head out of their @$$ -- like me.

posted 03 March 2005 15:32            

I'm sure you got it all straightened out. I just wanted anyone else to know, like me who took the time to write & email, IF they too might have the same problem, here was the simple solution.

Dr. W,

From what you wrote above, I would have to say NO, your letter would not help because as you stated, "'cause you know I can't get through writing much of anything without CUSSING."

IF you could write a letter and leave out ALL CUSS words, I'm sure you could be very effective in this effort. I've read many of your replies when I was responding to someone else's & perhaps even your post.

But cussing there and here, turns people off. Once you get to that point when the cussing and acquisations start, the reader quits and will NOT return to it.

Sorry, but I do found your nickname offensive. When I joined last fall, it was really frowned on using any cuss words on here, and now I've noticed more & more including your posts/replies.

I personally like Dr. Wise ... just leave off the rest of it.

You asked for an opinion, and that is mine. I have not meant to offend you in any manner. Some folks have are gifted with tact. I'm a farmer's daughter, and just raised to tell the truth.

I hope we can continue having good dialogue going, just without all the cuss words.

Would you change your nickname please? It just sets a tone for new members that they can use any cuss word in their screen nickname.

Dr. W., thanks for your consideration of my comments. This is the 1st time I've taken issue with anyone on an issue since joining. I do not intend to make it a habit again.

Life is too precious; let's use all our rage on changing the MD/legal systems, and not on each other as we're all fighting for our lives....ok.

Betty G., Iowa

posted 03 March 2005 23:07               

Believe me when I say she is extremely eloquent when she needs to be and is one of the better writers on Lymenet.

posted 04 March 2005 00:24               

I DID mention you're like my new best friend, right?

How bout moving to TX - I ain't got me a lot of friends these days - keep p*$$ing them off quite regular...must be the neuro-psychiatric manifestations of Lyme that are causing me to have a "mild" form of Tourette's syndrome. (Some people just don't understand.)

Besides, we ain't go no Lyme here in Texas...haven't you heard?

So you just pack your bags girl, I'll see what I can't do to drive my neighbor away.

I'll use the above mentioned neuro-psychiatric manifestations of chronic late stage Lyme to my advantage.

"Use what you got"...that's my motto. Well, not really, I just made it up.

Eloquent? Well, I'll be @#$%ed! Thanks!