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Name: Carissa Haston on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sarah Johnson on Feb 11, 2010Comments: As a medical student struggling with gastroparesis, I urge you to reconsider your stance re: allocating funding for these devastating disease.Flag
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Name: Carolyn Barry on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Michael S. Smith on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Julie Blunt on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Carey Ann Keefer on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I have a motility disease called Gastroparesis. This disease has broken me physically and mentally. There is so little known about it by doctors that it is hard to keep up hope...But I do keep up hope that more research will be done and there may be even more hope for people w/ GP out there. Senator McCain, I ask you to please, read a little about motility disorders and see if you still want to say not-so-nice comments about funding going to help GI disease research. I trust you will help us. Take Care!Flag
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Name: Jennifer Broderick on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Stacey Carey on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I have been battling Gastroparesis for almost 8 years now. I went from a very busy person you had a great job a house of her own and i played softball and coached little league softball to someone you had to quit working, sell my house and i can no longer play or coach softball because of this diease. We need more funding for research so the doctors can find a cure for this diease. How would you like it if you or someone you loved spent most of their days throwing up. It is not a fun way to spend your days.. Please help us with more funding for research..Flag
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Name: Kelsey Kinkade on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Make my life change for the better!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sharyn Davies on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Colleen Ryan Beener on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Please support funding for motility research. So many of us are suffering and there is no hope on the horizon!Flag
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Name: Jim Slusher on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Stephany Katsur on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Please help my friend who suffers from this debilitating condition.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kim Monkiewicz on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Antiya Manns on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I was diagnosed with idiopathic gastroparesis in March of 2006. This diagnosis came after loads of testing, severe weight loss, and thousands of dollars. Gastroparesis funding is definitely needed so others won't experience the lack of care, concern, and medical treatment as I have.Flag
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Name: Dean Mejia on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I am in support of this issue.Flag
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Name: Cindy Tessmer on Feb 11, 2010Comments: It is very important that you understand the need for research funding for gastroparesis as there is currently no cure. The medications out there are very limited or have horrible side effects such as Reglan. It would be nice to finally have some research to find out what can be done for motility.Flag
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Name: Tamra Kean on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I have Gastroparesis and have been lucky enought to have a gastric pacemaker which has helped me considerably, but there is still so much that needs to be done in order to have good quality of life. Any research that can be done to achieve this would be fantastic.Flag
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Name: Thomas Breiner on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jamie Coplin on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Marcia Kershaw on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lauren on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Please reconsider your careless assumption that this is not a serious, life changing, deadly disease. My life in the last 5 years has been ruined by GP. Next time you sit down to eat a meal think of us. Some of us have even lost the ability to eat any sort of solid food. Tell me again that this isn't a problem......Flag
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Name: Lisa Marie Pawlak on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Post-surgical GP/diagnosed 2007.Flag
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Name: Sandra L. Isley on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I got gastroparesis after I had hernia surgery in 2006. I lost 80 pounds slowly after because I could only eat about 10 tablespoons of food before my nose started to run, I would sneeze and then start to gag. From reading some of the blogs from others who have this problem, including my cousin's granddaughter who has to smoke medical marijuana to keep the nausea in check, I don't have as bad a problem. I know when to stop eating and I needed to loose weight, but this problem can become worse for me. Please help the people who have this very awful medical problem. Thanks, Sandy Isley.Flag
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Name: Jennifer Alcivar on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Melissa McLaughlin on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Raymond A. Pawlak Jr on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Wife is post-surgical GP.Flag
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Name: Bonnie Crossley on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: TIFFINI HEBERT on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Clarissa Foss on Feb 11, 2010Comments: The time is now, please enable these efforts to help people who suffer with these disorders.Flag
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Name: Deanna Steinert on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Senator McCain: I had to drop out of college due to my motility issues. There are days when the pain due to my inability to process food properly is so intense it equals giving birth. It is a continous problem that hasn't so far been helped by the current treatments available. Until there is a cure there should be money allocated for more research. I hope you will show better sensivity into these and other issues.Flag
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Name: Sandra on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I signed this because, as it stands, my fiancé is in for a life of severe pain, vomiting every day, cutting his diet down to half of what a normal person eats, and most likely an early death. It kills me to see it and we're in major debt, almost homeless, because of this condition. The doctors say there's nothing that can be done to change any of this. Research is our only hope.Flag
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Name: Cheri Cole on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Benjamin H. Sterwerf on Feb 11, 2010Comments: In memory of Telitha McAdamsFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Senator McCain - Please help those of us who are suffering, do not take funding away from places that need it the most.Flag
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Name: Lynn Keller on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Amanda Boyce on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ruth Warren on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Malia Schaefer on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Meagan Gray on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Suzanne Fondl on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I developed gastroparesis as a side affect of being treated for ovarian cancer. The difficulty of trying to get proper nutrition while dealing with two separate diseases is a daily struggle for me. I had never heard about gastroparesis before it happened to me. There are very few drugs to treat it. We need someone like Senator McCain to advocate for us, to be in our corner, not to belittle our pain. I don't think that he realizes that having a disease like this means that you can never eat normally again. Please, Senator McCain...I supported you, can't you stand for me?Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ruthie S. Gray on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: MARGARET SCOTT on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I am upset and very offended at Senator McCain's thoughtless comment regarding funding for research into motility disorders. This is a life threatening condition for millions of people and a debilitating condition for millions more. America is very far behind many other countries in their research and available treatments. It is time to catch up with the rest of the world. I speak from the heart as a mother of a 22 year old whose life has been seriously affected with postviral gastroparesis. I hope no-one in your family is ever afflicted with any form of motility disorder. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.Flag