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Dear ARD sufferer,
This is a very
important letter that you can send to your Congressional Official
requesting his/her support for full funding of the National
Institutes of Health, NIDDK with respect to diabetes and digestive
and kidney diseases, specifically as it pertains to research of ARD
(Adhesion Related Disorder) authorized in the FY2006 Budget. The
reason this is so imperative is that ARD research has never been
addressed before in the budget. When I was in Washington D.C. last
June, my Congressman requested on my behalf, and other ARD
sufferers, a letter to Chairman Regula of the Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies.
Congressman Regula is no longer chairman but the fact remains the
language addressing ARD and the need for research consideration did
show up in the budget.
I urge
everyone to please send a copy of the following letter with an
attached personal letter of how you life has been effected by ARD.
This will be quite powerful and also personalize this request.
Follow up within 2 weeks of sending this by calling your
Congressperson office, asking for the Legislative Director and see
if your request is being considered. The only way we can get funding
for research is through appropriation bills which fund the budget.
It is a complicated process but your Congressperson's support is what is needed. Let
your voices be heard!!!! This is a major step for AWARENESS.
Thank you........
Anthea Nesbitt
Bombobeach.com Adhesions Support Group
www.bombobeach.com
Anthea@bombobeach.com
This is the letter
YOU should send to your Congress representative:
The Honorable
[insert name of US Congressional Representative]
U.S. House of Representative
Washington D.C. 20515
Dear (U.S.
Congressional representative),
I am writing to ask you to support full
funding of the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) with respect to
diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases, specifically as it
pertains to research of Adhesion Related Disorder (ARD).
ARD commonly
leads to abnormal attachments
between the organs inside the abdomen. The adhesions
are scar tissue resulting from
previous operations, trauma, endometriosis, infection, radiation or
chemo. Very little is known about why adhesions form more
aggressively in some people and diagnosis of the disease is
typically difficult, and surgical correction is often unsuccessful.
The House Appropriations Committee
encouraged NIDDK to investigate ARD and support
research to find treatments and understand causation and to
communicate these findings to broaden the knowledge of the disease
in the medical community.
For additional background information on ARD, please
visit
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/federal/pdf/NIDDK_fy06_CJ.pdf
and view pages 52-53 to see specific actions requests.
As an ARD sufferer, I encourage you
to request that funding be dedicated to the research of Adhesion
Related Disorder. I hope I can count on your
support to end the suffering and pain of the men, women and children
who are afflicted by this debilatating and often silent
killer. For more information about ARD, feel free to contact the
co-founder of The American Adhesion Support Group Inc. at
anthea@bombobeach.com or
www.bombobeach.com.
Sincerely,
Name
Address
Zip
code
E-mail
** It is
IMPORTANT to include a letter describing how ARD has affected your
life.**
Last updated:
07/09/2005
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