Monthly News Letter

Vol 1 -- Issue 1 -- January 1999 -- Page 2
Logo Winner!!
After a week of voting for the logo, the Chronic Pain Support Group has made a decision. It was a close race but we do have a winner! Voting took place from Monday, January 4th, through Sunday, January 10th. Voting was open to all members and each member could vote once a day every day for the entire week. Below are the voting results for each graphic:

4th, Place Received 3 votes.

3rd Place, Received 3 votes.

2nd Place, Received 11 votes.

1st Place Received 17 votes.
To view the voting stats, click here
The logos were designed and developed free of charge by Tim, a web graphic designer. He worked several days to find the correct font and graphics for our logo. Please be sure to stop by his Polandor web site and sign the guest book with a nice "Thank You"!
The new logo will be used on all official Chronic Pain Support Group web pages and correspondence. The HTML code for the image and a link to the Web site will be made available in the discussion forum. You will then be able to use this HTML code to put in your signature block and add to guest books you visit. If you prefer to use one of the other logos for your personal signature block, contact me and I will be happy to provide you with the HTML for that logo as well. Thanks everyone for participating!

Volunteers
A special thank you to Richard56 for volunteering his time to be the co-leader of the discussion forum (*big smile*) and to Sam for volunteering as a chat moderator. Their help has been really needed with the group growing so rapidly.
If there is something you would like to volunteer to do, (a poem for the news letter, research for news articles, or to host a new chat room for the group) please let me know via my e-mail: sune1@fcmail.com.
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What's inside?

CPS Group Guidelines
Chat Schedule
In the News
Logo Results
Monthly Stats
'Our Stories' Highlight
Each month in this section of the news letter, we will feature a member of our group, the information in this feature is taken primarily from the "Our Stories" section of the Discussion Forum.
This month, I would like to introduce Swanky1 to you. He is a young man, just 37 years old, is married and has 2 children. Swanky was one of the first members of our group. Swanky has been diagnosed with four sleep disorders and has had the right lower lobe of his lung removed due to an abscess. He has Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS), Periodic Limb Movement Disorder, Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Central Sleep Apnea. Swanky also suffers major headaches from sleep deprivation. Even though he is so often at the top in of the pain scale, he has been a great source of support and humor in our chat room and in the discussion forum, we are truly fortunate to have him as part of our group!

Chat Schedule
Our open chats are Tuesday - Sunday. However since the group is growing so rapidly, we're now offering two rooms, they are:
Chronic Pain Support Group - 9:00pm ET Hosted by: Rich / SunE1 / Sam
"Ouch!" (a room for those in great pain) -- 9:00pm ET Hosted by: SunE1 / Rich38 / Sam
Every Monday night is topic specific. Chat times are 9:00pm to 10:30pm ET. Your chat hosts are SunE1 & Rich38 & Sam. Below is the Topic Schedule:
Mon, 01/11/99, Topic: "Visualization"
Mon, 01/18/99, Topic: "Ask the Rx"
Mon, 01/25/99, Topic: "Applying for SSD"

The following are offered on specific days beginning February 1st 1999:
Mon, Wed, Fri, Coffee Break -- 10:00am ET Hosted by: SunE1
Tues & Thurs Afternoon Tea -- 2:00pm ET Hosted by: Sam
Saturday Night Owl -- 1:00am ET Hosted by: SunE1

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