Authored by BlueAngel on
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
An announcement and other information is being presented to this format in the expectation it will reach more members and other interested people or groups.
SAN ANTONIO POLIO SURVIVORS ASSOCIATION
%Warm Springs Rehabilitation Foundation Inc.
Warm Springs Resource Center for People with Disabilities
5101 Medical Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78229-4801
Date: 1 May 2004
Subject: Current Information
Our Meeting hours have been changed to 1:00 PM ---- 3:00 PM on the 2nd Tuesday of Each Month at the Resourcenter for People with Disabilities in Room 132.
The reason for the time change of the meeting is due to the transportation service request. They would appreciate our cooperation to have most of the vehicles be back no later than 4:30 PM. They have the services of Presa Community Center buses & drivers to supplement their own transportation vehicles and drivers. Warm Springs does provide transportation services to several of our members on a regular basis.
The fees are generally $5.00 each way. Talk to either Christiana Rodgers or Donna Teall for information on an application for transportation fees based on financial need. Call 210.595.9200 to talk with either of them about it.
The next meeting is scheduled for May 11, 2004 --- This will be the last meeting until September 8, 2004. Our speakers will be:
1. Luis Napoles of Johnson & Johnson. He will demonstrate the new Iglide wheelchair; show material on the Ibot chairs that can go up and down stairs & answer any questions you might have about this new type of wheel chair. He will speak at !:00 PM for about 20 minutes then will answer any questions you may have.
2. Oscar Garcia of the Social Security Administration Medicare Office here in San Antonio will be speaking to us at 2:00 PM about the new prescription medicine discount drug cards, etc. which are going into effect this year The Medicare beneficiaries receiving care will be most interested how this will be handled.
At our April meeting, we had a questionnaire to be filled in by the members. The subject was mainly what direction we want the Association to go. We will appreciate receiving those filled questionnaires at your convenience. For those that were not there we are sending the questionnaire for you to fill out and send back to us.
The Newsletter has not been written for a while. I finally brought one to Donna & Christiana for printing and mailing covering the months from November through March. Hopefully you will get a copy soon!
We have a “Blog” web site ( a type of interactive web site) which was donated to the San Antonio Polio Survivors Association from Munuviana of Australia. It was donated to us in December 2003. I am still learning how to navigate the site. It is still a work in progress.
The web site address is: http://sapsa.mu.nu/ . I hope that you find the site of interest.
If there are any articles or areas of interest which you would like to see posted, please get in contact with me.
We will soon have links with Warm Springs Resource Center and the Texas Polio Survivors Association.
Contacts you can reach for information about San Antonio Polio Survivors Association are:
Christiana Rodgers: 210.595.9200 or Crodgers@wssahosp.org
Ethel Taylor: 210.696.1710 or blueangel@sbcglobal.net (please note the change from Juno to sbcglobal)
Ruth Moon: 210.523.6216 or Moonfamily3@sbcglobsl.net
Michael Beard: 210490-3190 or Michael78247@yahoo.com
Hope to see you at our next meeting!!!
Ethel E. Killgore Taylor
Survey of Membership
Check whichever suggestion or question you might want to contribute your energies to make the Association more meaningful to you, please! Any not listed or any comments please write on back of this sheet.
Suggestions to make our Association to grow.
1. Contact different community groups
□ Seniors Groups & other community service groups (Lion’s Clubs, Rotary clubs, etc & tell them ,” We are trying to get information out about Post Polio Syndrome--can you help us?”)
□ Tell our personal health care providers and ask for their help in getting the information out . You might want to hand them, a copy of “What internist should knowabout Post-Polio Syndrome” by Dr. Julie K. Silver
□ Neighborhood Papers
□ Directors of Nursing Education at the various schools of nursing, hospitals, clinics by phone, fax, e-mails , snail’s mail.
□ Radio & TV outlets about getting our information out via Public Service Announcements
□ Any suggestions you might want to make
2. Creating more interest in our meetings and Association do you want to
□ share experiences
□ discuss problems
□ ask questions
□ continue meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of each month
□ once a quarter have a “social” on a Saturday like brown bagging the meeting at the Resourcenter or going out some place mutually decided by the group
□ Meeting times would be better from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
3. What do you as our members want & how could you be better supported by the other members, the leadership or the Resourcenter ?
□ Social activities
□ Financial affairs
□ Family affairs
□ Emotional needs
□ Would you like a member to contact you periodically by phone just to talk?
□ If the answer to the above is yes how often?
□ Transportation Services information
□ Travel -- day trips? Possibly an overnighter?
Since we do not have or collect dues, two of us have defrayed the cost of the meeting notification cards and the newsletters. We have appreciated the contributions made at some of the meetings to help defray some of that cost as well as the refreshments the first year or so we were meeting. The cost of paper, cards, ink, & printing are becoming more expensive & we are both on fixed incomes. We would like to suggest a donation to the association of $10.00/year on a voluntary basis if you want to continue receiving the Newsletters and the Notification Cards. Naturally if no one could afford that amount yearly, possibly you could donate $5.00 every 6 months.
We would also like to have your current addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses to update the membership rolls which we are trying to do at the present time.
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