Rooms have a special rate of $59.00 per room, plus tax, 1-4 people on each room, will be extended 2 days out for early arrivals and extended 2 days out from scheduled group departure, based on availability. To receive this special package, reservations must be made by April 17th, 2001. You receive a continental breakfast with this, which includes fruits, muffins, bagels, toast, cereals, juice, coffee etc. Phone 1-800-808-9355 quoting Internet Reunion Group #1817. A credit card deposit will be requested for the first night's lodging.

On Saturday, June 9th, they have scheduled a sit-down, served meal at 5pm. Cost will be $12.00 and the menu is: Citrus Chicken, Baby Red Potatoes, Green Beans Amandine, Green Salad, Hot Fresh Rolls and Chef dessert of the day.

One afternoon or evening, the spouses/friends of the polio survivors will have sharing time by themselves. There is usually free time available to "do" Branson. Groups may also decide to attend a show, or go eat at a certain restaurant. Last year everyone chipped in and chicken, salads, lunch meats, bread, cheese etc., and other munchies were brought to our "meeting room" so we didn't go out and eat all the time. Coffee and ice tea were always available in this room as well. Many attendees brought their craft items to share and sell.

Tommy Lynn writes:

Hi folks,

Our third Branson Internet Reunion will be held in Branson on June 8-11, 2001. We will again hold it at The Lawrence Welk Resort as they treated us so nice this past June. They are fully handicapped accessable but only have 6 Handicapped rooms per se. These are first come-first served.

We also have a Branson E Group and this is where we do all the planning, scheduling and such. It's also a very nice PPS support group, no flaming allowed ;-)

If you would like to join forces with the rest of us whackos, email me at tlcon@webound.com and I shall subscribe you.

Thanks for your interest and we sure want y'all to join us this coming June.

Tommy Lynn
http://homepages.msn.com/SpiritSt/tlc57/PPSersandJesus.html

An account of last years reunion can be read in our newsletter the LincPIN Volume 2 - Issue No. 12 - August 2000.

We are also trying to establish a memorial, or "Polio Museum" for the facility to depict the history of Gonzales Warn Springs Hospital which was created in 1937 to treat polio victims.

The Conference will feature Dr. Richard L. Bruno, who is a Clinical Psychophysiologist specializing in the treatment of stress-related disorders and Post Polio Sequelae (PPS), the unexpected and often disabling fatigue, muscle weakness and pain that is occurring in the 1.63 million American survivors of polio. He is internationally acknowledged as the foremost expert on PPS. Dr. Bruno trained at the New York Psychiatric Institute and as a Fellow in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Paul E. Peach, MD, will be a principal speaker. Dr. Peach, a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation, is director of the Palmyra Post-Polio Clinic, Albany, Georgia. For over a decade, he was medical director of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation and the Warm Springs Post-Polio Clinic. He was a contributing author to the "Handbook on the Late Effects of Poliomyelitis for Physicians and Survivors."

Joan L. Headley, executive director of the International Polio Network, will also be a principal speaker. IPN maintains ties throughout the world with polio survivors and experts in the research, diagnosis, and treatment of PPS. IPN also sponsors periodic international conferences in St. Louis with worldwide attendance.

William A. B. Ditto, executive director of the recently-established New Jersey State Office on Disability Services, has been on the frontline of the disability issues that face all polio survivors.

Workshops:

Dr. Richard L. Bruno, director of the Post-Polio Institute at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, will report on their latest study: anaesthesia and polio survivors.

Dr. Vimi Khattar, director of rehabilitation medicine at the Somerset Medical Center, will focus on osteoporosis.

Dr. William Ryan, of the Center for Family Health, Whitehouse Station, will explore the therapeutic use of magnets.

Shanda Davis, Lynn Hutchings, and Theresa O'Neill-- three women scholars who have each conducted studies of disability-related issues -- will report on their findings, touching on PPS and the family, Alzheimer's Disease, and how individuals deal with their own disability.

WARM SPRINGS, Ga. - Over 500 Warm Springs Reunion brochures are already on their way to polio survivors all over the country. Others will be going out each and every day over the next month.

Detailing the April 11-14 return of Warm Springs Alumni from the FDR Era and early vaccine years of the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s, the brochures include objectives, the reunion schedule, housing information and a registration form. They are designed to initiate the much- anticipated process of bringing back this unique group in remembrance of a special time and place in all of their lives.

"Based on the interest we've had from polio groups and our polio survivors, we're anticipating at least 200 returnees and we're looking forward to a fun and informative reunion," Roosevelt Institute Conference and Continuing Education Director Carolyn Moreland stated recently. "Most of these folks haven't seen or talked to each other in 50 or 60 years and we want to make their reunion as memorable as possible."

During the height of the polio epidemic that gripped this nation during the first half of the 20th Century, Warm Springs was home to an average of 125 polio patients at the Warm Springs Foundation, a treatment center started by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (himself a polio victim) in 1927. They came from every state and other nations seeking help and recovery from the dreaded disease, and they included soldiers during the World War II years, many of whom contracted polio while fighting in the Pacific.

For every one patient there were at least four staffers, including therapists, nurses, technicians, doctors and possibly the most famous of all, "push boys," young, able-bodied men from the local area responsible for getting the patients to places they couldn't reach on their own. And like the former patients, many staffers of that time are expected.

The reunion is the brainchild of Dr. Anne Gawne, director of the post-polio syndrome program at the Roosevelt Institute. The reason for the early spring timing is so that it might be held in conjunction with the annual observance of FDR's death in Warm Springs on April 12, 1945. Georgia Governor Roy Barnes is tentatively scheduled to speak at this year's ceremony at The Little White House.

In addition, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, granddaughter of the former, four-term president, will kick things off at a reception at the Historic Therapy Pools, which are now part of The Little White House State Historic Site.

Additional Speaker: Jane P. Wootton MD, Director of the Post-Polio Clinic at Sheltering Arms Hospital in Richmond, VA

1 PM Dr. Keenan speaks on Principles of Bracing for PPS.

2 PM Dr. Keenan speaks on Current Surgical Treatments of PPS.

3 PM to 3:15 PM - break time.

3:15 PM Dr. Wootton speaks on Treatment of PPS and Associated Symptoms such as Insomnia and Pain.

4:15 PM Question and Answer Time for both doctors.

5 PM Conference ends.

Presentations: 10am - 2pm.
Exhibits: 9am - 2:30pm.

Come and learn more about Post-Polio Syndrome and the various resources available in our community. (Refreshments will be served)

Schedule of Events:

10am -11:30am "Medical Management of Post Polio Syndrome"
Presented by W. Clinton Maxwell, M.D.

11:30pm -12:30pm "Internet Tips and Shortcuts"
Presented by Suzan Burgett.

12:30pm - 1:00pm Refreshments & Vendor Exhibits.

1:00pm - 2:00pm "Conserving Energy Through Exercise"
Presented by Bobby Montgomery, Exercise Physiologist.

Types Of Vendors: (Exhibits Open From 9am - 2:30pm)

• Rehabilitation Services.
• Medical Equipment/Scooter Companies.
• Van Manufacturers.
• Home Mobility Companies.
• Travel Services.
• Personal Home Services.
• And more...

For more information, call 972-394-8900, ext. 1148
www.easterseals.com

Programme:
9.30 - 10.00 Coffee and Registration.
Presentation 1 - Polio Revisited - Robin Howard.
Presentation 2 - Post Polio Syndrome - The U.S. Perspective - Anthony Windebank.
Break.
Presentation 3 - The Post Polio Syndrome - The U.K. Perspective - Adrian J. Williams.
Presentation 4 - Post Polio Respiration - A. Craig Davidson.
Presentation 5 - Post Polio Sleep - Adrian J. Williams.
Lunch.
Presentation 5 - The Patient's Perspective - Tony Gould.
Presentation 6 - Orthopaedics - Prof F.W. Heatley.
Presentation 7 - Spinal Surgery - John O'Dowd.
Presentation 8 - Psychiatry - Andrew Hodgkiss.
Presentation 9 - Rehabilitation - A. Craig Davidson.
Summary and Close - Adrian J. Williams and Robin Howard.

Course Fee:
£50.00 for consultants and GP's.
£30.00 for allied professionals.

For registration, contact phartke@aol.com

For full details including contact information see the preliminary announcement in NewsBites 14th May 1999

08:00 - 08:45 a.m. Registration.
09:00 a.m. Welcome.
09:15 a.m. Overview of Polio and Post-Polio Syndrome. (Burk Jubelt, M.D.)
10:05 a.m. Question and Answer.
10:15 a.m. Break.
10:30 a.m. Exercise in Post-Polio Syndrome. (David Diamant, M.D.)
11:00 a.m. Question and Answer.
11.10 a.m. Pulmonary Manifestations of Post-Polio Syndrome. (David Diamant, M.D.)
11:40 a.m. Question and Answer.
11:50 a.m. Lunch. (Will include table discussion and sharing.)
01:00 p.m. Pathogenesis in Post-Polio Syndrome. (Burk Jubelt, M.D.)
01:50 p.m. Question and Answer.
02:00 p.m. The Effects of Post-Polio Syndrome on Swallowing. (Mark Hakel, Ph.D.)
02:50 p.m. Question and Answer.
03:00 p.m. Break.
03:15 p.m. Eating for Health and Enjoying It! Looking Forward to Every Meal. (Shari Jondle, Registered Dietitian.)
04:05 p.m. Question and Answer.
04:15 p.m. Adjourn.

Representatives from I.D.S. Limited Cappagh Hospital, Dublin.
Representatives from the Department of Health, Dublin.

Post Polio Support Group
Carmichael Centre,
North Brunswick Street,
Dublin 7, Ireland.