RLS: You're gonna love this!!!!

February 11, 1999

Here's a fun one, folks. My twenty year old daughter was home from college

last week. She said, " MOM!!! I have to do an Informative speech when I get

back to school. What should I do it on? "

So...Mom...yours truly...brings out all my printed info on RLS, including a

copy of " Nightwalkers " ...and I send her back to school. She called today,

to say it was a GREAT speech!!! She now knows more about it than I do. LOL

She said, " So, I devided it into causes, symptoms, and treatments. " I

asked, " So, what ARE the causes? " She told me a few things I didn't know. LOL

Evidently, she did a great job from a public speaking aspect, too. (Which

makes me proud, cuz my college degree was in public speaking.) She told

them, right off the bat, " You may think this doesn't pertain to you,

because you're 20 something and don't have these symptoms...but guess what!

It often begins after traumas or surgery, or during pregnancy, or during

middle age years. So, there's a great chance you'll get it! "

I guess that from there on, she had their attention.

And she ended with, " Ya know, when my mom found out she had this, I always

teased her and called it 'retarded leg syndrome'...but now that I've

learned more about it, I don't think it's something to joke about anymore. "

Is that kewl, or what? Surprisingly enough, no one came up to her and

said they had RLS. That's good news. But it's nice to know the word is

getting out in all sorts of ways.

Jill, 46

Payson, AZ

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