Lets get CDH on the Oprah Show.

[LiseDill]

I did too.
Nothing long: cherubs, Grace , CDH....right to the point

[StephanieOlivarez]

I received this back from Readers Digest.
Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for sharing your submission with us.
We'll be in touch if we decide to publish your contribution.
Sincerely,
The RD.com Editors
1 Reader's Digest Road
Pleasantville, NY 10507
http://www.rd.com/

I did my letter the same, CHERUBS, Shelby, CDH.

Ok, more need to get on this to Readers Digest. More people writting- the more they will know how we want to spread CDH awareness.

[karahess]

I'm glad to see people diving into the Readers Digest route. I'm addicted to that magazine. I had kind of given up hope on them as they have a thing in their magazine in tiny, tiny print that says not to send in articles to them.

[LiseDill]

Ha!I got the same thing!!
That's probably what they send out to acknowledge they rec'd it.
Let's just hope they read it

[AlyxChavis]

Thanks to everyone that has written. They say not to send articles in the magazine but on the web site they do let you submit stories with the caveat that they usually only print there staff writers. It's not readily available, you have to search for the page. That's why I said right away that I was not a writer and was only submitting for them to consider one of there writers write about CDH. I also gave them 2 points of view for the story. We'll see.

Alyx

[karahess]

Ah ha! Good job digging around and finding out that little secret, Alyx. Lord willing, CDH will strike a cord with one of their writers.

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Great jobs, everyone! I've been working on some articles from a couple different perspectives too. Shane's story, CHERUBS story, running an on-line non-profit and one on the drama stuff going on (non-personal, abstract on the pitfalls of running an organization while dealing with the occasional issues). I figure any story we can get published that will allow us to type the words "Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia" in the media is great. So please look at your stories from all different sides - how it affected your family, living in a different city while in the hospital, single parents, through the eyes of your other children, etc.

And contact a local reporter who wants to expand his/her career. I'm very fortunate to live in a area with a lot of writers, several very well known. I also have known the editor of one of the local papers for 20 years (I used to babysit her boys when we both lived in VA and we ran into each other again when she interviewed me about CHERUBS.... God certainly had a hand in that!). I'm going to send these stories into them, hoping that at least 1 will want to help me finally write that book about my story or one will have connections to the Associated Press.

I also am contacting all the local media (tv, radio, newspapers) about the Angel Ball and Golf Tournament. Those of you that are planning to attend - use that as a story too! How you are raising funds to attend or how your family is meeting other CDH families. After the events, write articles about how it was to meet other families.

There is always a story in everything... but in our cases, we each have about 100 stories. The trick isn't to try to fit it all in one article, but to focus on one thing, one event, one moment... and take the readers there with you.

[JodeW]

I emailed Oprah last night. Hopefully, the more people that do email her the more they will see just how common CDH really is in our world.
This is all still very new to me. It has taken me so long to get to this point. Thank you to all you for listening to me.

[LiseDill]

AND you still have to write something for Victoria on YouTube!!!!

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

how about using what's in the PRG?