Hello, everyone, worldwide. I thought I would just share this with you, as I am feeling very down. Last May, I sent a fan letter to John Dye of TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, along with my son's story, pictures, and an issue of THE CAHOOT newsletter, to see if I could possibly bring about some national exposure to the newborn screening issue. Well, today in the mail, I received the following response: Dear Ms. Cummins: Thank you for your submission with respect to TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL receives a great number of unsolicited program ideas and submissions every year, making it impossible for the program staff to read and sonsider each one on its own merits. Sonsequently, consistent with the CBS Entertainment Division policy, the show has established a procedure for handling unsolicited submissions such as yours whereby it forwards the materials to the CBS Registry Office for return to you without any program executive of CBS or any production executive at TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL having reviewed the material. In accordance with CBS' policy, enclosed please find your original material. We hope you will understand the necessity for this procedure. Please know we appreciate your interest in CBS and in TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. Very truly yours, Salphy N. Tchalekian Registry Office So, after almost a year, my idea went nowhere. Ie this after having experienced great spiritual defeat after my son's diagnosis, and it was only after hearing the title song for TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, did I begin to heal. They also did a show on transplants, which featured a plea by a football star, for livers and other transplantable organs(so I find it hard to believe that all submissions are turned down, it just depends on who you are, I guess). So, I wanted to let you all know, that, I am a great advocate for this disorder and its recognition, plus for national newborn screening, but it seems as if my efforts are getting me nowhere. Like someone else posted, I sometimes hate this disorder, and what it has done to my family, and our finances. My son is now 15 months old, and is such a blessing, but I am discouraged. I want to be his advocate, but, I don't know if I help anyone. Thanks for reading. I know this was long.