Comments on: Restless Legs Syndrome, an introduction http://bobyoakum.com/2006/11/17/restless-legs-syndrome-a-sample-chapter/ Sun, 20 May 2012 19:16:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Elizabeth J. Visone (NJ RLS Support Group Leader) http://bobyoakum.com/2006/11/17/restless-legs-syndrome-a-sample-chapter/#comment-19 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:20:26 +0000 http://bobyoakum.com/2006/11/17/restless-legs-syndrome-a-sample-chapter/#comment-19 Dear Mr. Yoakum, My name is Elizabeth Visone and I am the new and VERY enthusiastic Leader of the NJ Restless Legs Syndrome Support Group through the National RLS Foundation. I am very excited to write to you, having seen your book - "Restless Legs Syndrome: Relief and Hope for Sleepless Victims of a Hidden Epidemic" on bookshelves and online. I am very anxious to read it myself. I want to personally congratulate you on your many wonderful successes as an inspired, extremely knowledgeable and caring author. Our ever-growing RLS Support Group meets quarterly at JFK Medical Center in Edison, NJ under the direction of our faithful Advisor - Dr. Arthur Walters. The purpose of our Group is to further awareness of RLS and share information regarding the latest research and medical breakthroughs in RLS treatment and care. We also look to meet friends and discover how to better understand and cope with the relentless pain and sleep loss that RLS symptoms bring. We address RLS on the individual patient level and also as an entire family problem (as my loving husband Michael knows all too well!!). And then of course there are always the many questions that our group members have, along with their desperate need for the understanding that their condition is indeed real and serious. I personally have been putting a lot of effort in furthering the great success of our support group. I am also hoping to become a national RLS spokesperson in the near future. I am 36 years old and a mother of two little children. I have had severe RLS since I am 5 years old. After being misdiagnosed myself and misunderstood for so long, I am now so very thankful to be properly diagnosed as a "text book case of RLS" and to be receiving the proper treatment. I feel it is my calling now to reach out to others with RLS and help guide them in the proper direction to find the help THEY need. I hope to be able to give back to the RLS Community and do my best to help raise awareness of RLS. I do this for my children so they may never have to experience all that I have been through. I am now a patient and friend of Dr. Art Walters. Through our NJ support group, we have been fortunate enough to have amazing world-class RLS doctors/specialists give presentations and answer questions. Our two recent past speakers have been Dr. Walters and Dr. Wayne Hening. I am asking you, Mr. Yoakum, if you have any availability in the next few months on a Saturday afternoon to donate your time and come out to JFK Hospital and give a brief presentation at one of our meetings. Personally, I would be so excited and thrilled to listen to you speak and I know Dr. Walters would be equally as pleased and interested. Please let me know as soon as you can. Also I would more than love a signed copy of your book "Restless Legs Syndrome: Relief and Hope for Sleepless Victims of a Hidden Epidemic"!!! Thank you so much for your time and all that you do in easing people's minds and bodies, and also for your promotion of RLS awareness. I know you have dedicated a portion of your writing career to studying RLS. I only hope in the future I can be of assistance to you in some small way. Thanks again! Very Sincerely Yours, Elizabeth J. Visone - NJ RLS Support Group Leader Elizabeth J. Visone 47 Hamilton Road Verona, NJ 07044 Home (973) 857-8729, Cell (973) 715-3868 ElizabethVis@aol.com Dear Mr. Yoakum,
My name is Elizabeth Visone and I am the new and VERY enthusiastic Leader of the NJ Restless Legs Syndrome Support Group through the National RLS Foundation. I am very excited to write to you, having seen your book - “Restless Legs Syndrome: Relief and Hope for Sleepless Victims of a Hidden Epidemic” on bookshelves and online. I am very anxious to read it myself. I want to personally congratulate you on your many wonderful successes as an inspired, extremely knowledgeable and caring author.

Our ever-growing RLS Support Group meets quarterly at JFK Medical Center in Edison, NJ under the direction of our faithful Advisor - Dr. Arthur Walters. The purpose of our Group is to further awareness of RLS and share information regarding the latest research and medical breakthroughs in RLS treatment and care. We also look to meet friends and discover how to better understand and cope with the relentless pain and sleep loss that RLS symptoms bring. We address RLS on the individual patient level and also as an entire family problem (as my loving husband Michael knows all too well!!). And then of course there are always the many questions that our group members have, along with their desperate need for the understanding that their condition is indeed real and serious.

I personally have been putting a lot of effort in furthering the great success of our support group. I am also hoping to become a national RLS spokesperson in the near future. I am 36 years old and a mother of two little children. I have had severe RLS since I am 5 years old. After being misdiagnosed myself and misunderstood for so long, I am now so very thankful to be properly diagnosed as a “text book case of RLS” and to be receiving the proper treatment. I feel it is my calling now to reach out to others with RLS and help guide them in the proper direction to find the help THEY need. I hope to be able to give back to the RLS Community and do my best to help raise awareness of RLS. I do this for my children so they may never have to experience all that I have been through.

I am now a patient and friend of Dr. Art Walters. Through our NJ support group, we have been fortunate enough to have amazing world-class RLS doctors/specialists give presentations and answer questions. Our two recent past speakers have been Dr. Walters and Dr. Wayne Hening. I am asking you, Mr. Yoakum, if you have any availability in the next few months on a Saturday afternoon to donate your time and come out to JFK Hospital and give a brief presentation at one of our meetings. Personally, I would be so excited and thrilled to listen to you speak and I know Dr. Walters would be equally as pleased and interested. Please let me know as soon as you can. Also I would more than love a signed copy of your book “Restless Legs Syndrome: Relief and Hope for Sleepless Victims of a Hidden Epidemic”!!! Thank you so much for your time and all that you do in easing people’s minds and bodies, and also for your promotion of RLS awareness. I know you have dedicated a portion of your writing career to studying RLS. I only hope in the future I can be of assistance to you in some small way. Thanks again! Very Sincerely Yours, Elizabeth J. Visone - NJ RLS Support Group Leader
Elizabeth J. Visone
47 Hamilton Road
Verona, NJ 07044
Home (973) 857-8729, Cell (973) 715-3868
ElizabethVis@aol.com

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