Updates!!!
I just want to thank everyone for signing :) . Good luck to anyone who has/or is about to have their surgery. If anyone gets the chance, please could you add a scoliosis testing message to their websites or tell their friends about the petition. If we all do something - or even just sign :-) - then we could really make a difference. Here's a quick list of thankyous:
1. Everyone who has signed or read the Angel Balloons (I attached some balloons to the Angel of the North).2 Anyone who has ever performed surgery etc on scoliosis patients or researched scoliosis.
Hope everyone is well
Bye
EM
I've found out my operation worked :) and am so happy just wanted to post about that. Also please tell people about the petition - 374 at least 250 on Gillian Mckeith's - it could really work if we keep trying
Thanks
Emma
30th July
Intro
My petition is to help raise awareness for scoliosis by sending this petition , with the following aims to the PM and MP'S. To test a child for scoliosis at certain ages will take less than a minute (with a forward bend test) but will help the child as 1 in 3000 people have scoliosis (curvature of the spine) so bad they have to have major surgery, which takes months to fully recover from. if they were tested earlier then this could have been prevented , in some cases, by use of a brace. So please sign this petiton and help children across the U.K. A new year is the perfect time to help.
Yours sincerely
C E Y
January 1st 2008
If you sign we are on the way to getting noticed.
Thankyou
Our target is 125 signatures by June 31st 2008
Please spread the word!!!
Petition Blog
January 4th
Have just checked my site and am amazed at number of responses - keep them coming
January 11th
Today our petition has had brilliant news! We have had a good luck message from the secretary of the Duke of york and our petition has been put up in a GP's. 19th January We have had a good luck message from Blue Peter!!!!!!! And Tanni Grey Thompson , Paralympic star has signed my website . Also today we added our first link to our new scoliosis forum at http://www.scoliosis.aceboard.com/ Ckeck it out. Some messages need registering to leave a post but some dont .Tell your scoliosis story and spread the word. Talk to people like you. Also go on Bt Today and read our first news coverage , just go btplc.com/today and London and young girl calls for health checks.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
June 1st
Sorry for not updating this in so long - instead I have been promoting the petition via TV (BBC Your News 31/5-1/6), Newspaper ( Mail on Sunday via Gilllian Mckeith's petition abotu my petition on her site) (and local newspaper Gazette on 24th March).
Updates!!!
I just want to thank everyone for signing :) . Good luck to anyone who has/or is about to have their surgery. If anyone gets the chance, please could you add a scoliosis testing message to their websites or tell their friends about the petition. If we all do something - or even just sign :-) - then we could really make a difference. Here's a quick list of thankyous:
1. Everyone who has signed or read the Angel Balloons (I attached some balloons to the Angel of the North).2 Anyone who has ever performed surgery etc on scoliosis patients or researched scoliosis.
Hope everyone is well
Bye
EM
I've found out my operation worked :) and am so happy just wanted to post about that. Also please tell people about the petition - 374 at least 250 on Gillian Mckeith's - it could really work if we keep trying
Thanks
Emma
30th July
Intro
My petition is to help raise awareness for scoliosis by sending this petition , with the following aims to the PM and MP'S. To test a child for scoliosis at certain ages will take less than a minute (with a forward bend test) but will help the child as 1 in 3000 people have scoliosis (curvature of the spine) so bad they have to have major surgery, which takes months to fully recover from. if they were tested earlier then this could have been prevented , in some cases, by use of a brace. So please sign this petiton and help children across the U.K. A new year is the perfect time to help.
Yours sincerely
C E Y
January 1st 2008
If you sign we are on the way to getting noticed.
Thankyou
Our target is 125 signatures by June 31st 2008
Please spread the word!!!
Petition Blog
January 4th
Have just checked my site and am amazed at number of responses - keep them coming
January 11th
Today our petition has had brilliant news! We have had a good luck message from the secretary of the Duke of york and our petition has been put up in a GP's. 19th January We have had a good luck message from Blue Peter!!!!!!! And Tanni Grey Thompson , Paralympic star has signed my website . Also today we added our first link to our new scoliosis forum at http://www.scoliosis.aceboard.com/ Ckeck it out. Some messages need registering to leave a post but some dont .Tell your scoliosis story and spread the word. Talk to people like you. Also go on Bt Today and read our first news coverage , just go btplc.com/today and London and young girl calls for health checks.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
June 1st
Sorry for not updating this in so long - instead I have been promoting the petition via TV (BBC Your News 31/5-1/6), Newspaper ( Mail on Sunday via Gilllian Mckeith's petition abotu my petition on her site) (and local newspaper Gazette on 24th March).
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3:30 pm PDT, Sep 7,
Paul Roberts, United Kingdom
i myself have a 11 year old daughter that has had the operation to correct her spine due to scoliosis only picked up by myself when she complained of back pain,her spine was the shape of an "s" her operation was carried out out the queens university hospital at Nottingham by Dr Webb.Early diagnosis is crucial so let them start testing. scoliosis is not mentioned on tv or in the papers like other conditions its about time it was more heard of............ many thanks to all that sponsored me raising money for scoliosis.. |