I just read the first few posts this morning... You guys are great!! These are the ideas that we need to share with others. At the end of the day today I will get the new forum up, and we will start new threads about several of these topics. We will be working with a long term friend and graphic designer Tom Grogg in Newport Beach to set up the final look and feel of the piece. I have already estimated how many pages of printing this is - part black and white, part 4 color, and we are getting bids on printing now so that we have a target fund raising goal. This is a huge project and expensive to do well. I am talking to to potential sponsors to help pay for it, but Ingrid and I will put up the first money, so that in a few months after we have all put our ideas together and it is fine tuned, it will not be held up waiting for funding. You guys are the best!

PS: A couple of you have written me about the other books. There is good information in them. They are not bad, worthless or any of that. I just think we can do better. I look back at the 4 years of dialog on these message boards and the wisdom here is significant. It is born of real feeelings and experiences, and not just a list of potential problems, definitions, and a glossary of terms. There is valuable information in here that goes beyond what has been done before in print. We are going to make something really useful. It is not a book, it is a TOOL. That dosen't mean that some other organization did try to do good, all it means is we are going to add to the resources that patients have, and not just from a clinical nuts and bolts perspective.