Hello - this is what i have being sent out on Wednesday to Radio & TV program Directors.  This will bE delvered via Fax and email.

Because this is to attract attention and prompt interest (and because we have no single CONTACT here ) we are focusing on ONE CALL to action.  To GET interested - to at bare minmium mention it BUT if not to at least broadcast about -- SEE Sound Bites.  

Attention -- Interest -- Desire -- Action. 

NOTHINg will ever say it all - but hopefull this will NOT be galnced at.  Teh request for Action is "get interested" please.  Then the FACT sheet (ALSO PUBLISHED HERE) will be attahced with suggested "blurbs" (sound bites).  NOT a "sniper" but a "tighter grenade" that i will sned to approx 2,000.  

LETTER STYLE:  Personal and individualized.   I have also added their "Fact Sheet" (which is what I am blasing out on Wednesday to Program Directors -- Radio & TV) -- luv Auggie

For those of you who want to write YOUR STORY -- to polticians, newspapers, etc.  These are GOOG guidleines from National Fibromyalgia Association.   Your story - your path - your experinece voiced is powerful - Keep up the great work! I am posting 2 other copies 1.) The PR awareness letter I created and 2.) A letter you may or may not desire to use.

National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA) is a non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization.  www.FMaware.org (714) 921-0150

May 12 is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. 

What is Fibromyalgia?

Pain is typically defined by neuroscientists as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (Sufka & Lynch, 2000).  Pain is highly associated psychologically with distress as an undifferentiated protest against anything that is unpleasant or aversive (Kalat & Shiota, 2007).  The function of pain is generally believed  to be the escape and avoidance to prevent further trauma and/or promote the healing processes (Williams, 2002).  Pain is experienced by everyone, but is expressed in different ways (Llewellyn, n.d.).  These definitions suggest pain is an emotional experience.  I will show how pain fits into all five criteria of a basic emotion, then I will compare pain to the emotions already classified as basic in the way they are related to mental illness in order to provide further evidence that pain is in fact a basic emotion.