CELEBRATE YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS!

CELEBRATE YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS!

We have had a fantastic year for Gastroparesis awareness, and I hope you all are very proud of what we have accomplished!

Thanks to the IFFGD, House Rep. Gwen Moore (statement: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2015/07/09/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E1028-3), Senator Tammy Baldwin (statement: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2016/07/12/senate-section/article/S4995-1), and all of you, we have been added to the NHO calendar and August is now officially, nationally recognized as Gastroparesis Awareness Month!

In addition, we have 20 approved state-level awareness proclamations in place (and 19 of those have already been received by the person who requested them). We have another 10 submitted and awaiting a decision. 

Here is a list of those that have been approved:

ALABAMA
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS
GEORGIA
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
IOWA
LOUISIANA
MARYLAND
MINNESOTA
MISSOURI
NEVADA
NORTH CAROLINA
PENNSYLVANIA
SOUTH CAROLINA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN

The following have been submitted and are still awaiting a decision:

FLORIDA
MAINE
MASSACHUSETTS
MICHIGAN
NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK
OHIO
OREGON
UTAH
VIRGINIA

We work on these in our advocacy group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Gastroparesis.FightingForChange/. If you join there, you will find instructions, and we will help you through the process. It is too late to get a proclamation in place for August this year, but if you are willing to request a week later in the year, we might still be able to do it.

We also keep a list in our group that we update regularly to reflect new information. We post photos of all the proclamations that have been received on our community page at

https://www.facebook.com/Gastroparesis.FightingForChange.Page/ as well.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!

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For photographs of the proclamations we have received, please see:

Gastroparesis: Fighting for Change Photo Album