Excerpt From The TenderPoints Newsletter

May 12, 1994

Hi Folks,

One of my Fibro friends sent this to me and I thought I'd pass it on to you. I

myself have never watched this TV program, but I do believe CBS will still be

getting a piece of my mind.

{{{Hugs}}}

Jacqui

SOME DISTURBING NEWS again from the televisions sets in everyone's living

rooms. This was brought to my attention from our never resting research

fairy, sol, and was written by our good friend Anne-Marie Vidal:

On tonights episode of Judging AMY, the disease FIBROMYALGIA was

ridiculed..They Implied we could " walk it off and its suffers were refered

to as Hypochondriacs!!!!! Ok now this part is easy..Lots of us gripe to each

other or on message boards and chatrooms.....Here is the link to the site of

CBS JUDGING AMY and at the very bottom CBS.com in teeny teeny letters it

says " feedback " and when it opens it says " tell us what you think.. " SO TELL

THEM!! I ALREADY did.... This is just the publicity we DON'T NEED! They should

be ashamed of themselves. Use this link to give them your feedback:

>

> This is what I wrote to CBS:

>

> I was shocked and disappointed to see a painful and crippling disease,

from which I suffer, ridiculed in one of my formerly favorite TV shows,

Judging AMY. I have been totally disabled by this chronic pain condition

called Fibromyalgia for over 10 years. I am not a hypochondriac (as was

described by actress Tyne Daly), nor can my condition be cured by " walking

it off " or health foods.. I wish it were that simple.I suggest your writers

put more thought into researching terms before just putting them into

scripts to achieve laughs, I doubt they would dare abuse a medical condition

such as cancer or AIDs quite so flippantly. "

" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the

things we did not do that is inconsolable. "

- Sydney J.

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