2017-July-21 –
Our Pot Luck party at Peter’s house: we had fun and discussed a proposed approach to increasing and maintaining public support for progress on PN.  Mike Foxworth, in his role of disturber-of-the-peace, made a presentation on something he (rather grandly) calls <The Neuropathy Network Plan PDF>. The key ideas:

• Our most critical need is awareness and coordination
  
• Neuropathy is an element of MANY diverse diseases, 
  
• Every disease is different and many (but not all) are powerfully supported by their own patient communities, charities, support groups and research projects.
  
• The “Every Disease for Itself” approach allows extraordinary inefficiencies when the fundamentals of neuropathy are common to all.
• A single foundation (like the Diabetes Association or the American Cancer Society) to incorporate all these neuropathy-related diseases may be impractical and unneeded.
• The proposed solution is a “Coordination Center” with rules that encourage direction and order in what is now a rather chaotic environment.  

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