Huntingdon Cromwell Rotary Club
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Tuesday, October 14th 2008 - 03:40:34 PM
Name: DEANIN NOONE
E-mail address: deanin.noone@hotmail.co.uk
Comments:hello huntingdon cromwell
can you please forward your direct email address so that i can send you my attachment.
thanks
deanin
Thursday, July 17th 2008 - 05:05:15 PM
Name: Jill Boocock
E-mail address: jboocock@whitecottagecromer.freeserve.co.uk
Comments:Having received your invite for the Abbots Ripton Garden Show, we are hoping to get a party up to come from Cromer & Sheringham Rotary Club. I know the gardens well having moved from your area to here.

kind regards

Jill Boocock (Mrs)
Friday, March 7th 2008 - 04:44:59 PM
Name: Elaine Sefton
E-mail address: elaine.sefton@ntlworld.com
Comments:Hello Oct 07
Tuesday, October 16th 2007 - 01:58:11 PM
Name: Delroy Jefferson
E-mail address: ffejdelroy@hotmail.com
Comments:I am from the Rotary Club of Cayman Brac in the Cayman Islands (Past president). I am currently on sabbatical from the Cayman Islands Health Service Authority and I am on assignment at Papworth Hospital. I will be here for a few weeks and am hoping to visit your club before I return to the Cayman Islands. Greet the members of your club on my behalf
Tuesday, February 20th 2007 - 08:28:01 PM
Name: Simon Jones
E-mail address: simonjones39@talktalk.net
Comments:Dear Sir / Madam
I am interested in joining Rotary. Please let me know where to start.

Thanks
Simon Jones
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Sunday, February 4th 2007 - 02:38:44 PM
Name: Ron S
E-mail address: surfnwho@excite.com
Homepage URL: http://ringingear.lifesoasis.com
Comments:I have a free tinnitus formula if interested
Wednesday, June 21st 2006 - 12:01:58 AM
Name: LeticiaAnnan
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Comments:THANK YOU.
Thursday, June 30th 2005 - 01:56:34 PM
Name: LeticiaAnnan
E-mail address: flexzyblai@yahoo.ca
Homepage URL: http://@yahoo.ca
Comments:THANK YOU.
Thursday, June 30th 2005 - 01:56:32 PM
Name: J Houghton
E-mail address: janeatsea@fsmail.net
Comments:Dear Rotary
Firstly let me apologize now for my forwardness in contacting you in this way, as I can appreciate how busy you must be. However, I thought this might be of interest to you and wondered if you had ever come across it before. Let me stress from the outset that I am not trying to sell you anything nor do I want anything from you in return (except five minutes of your time to read this). I am merely trying to raise awareness of a debilitating and often unknown condition called Mal de Debarquement Syndrome.

Basically, with this condition it is an imbalance or rocking sensation that occurs after getting off a boat or "debarking" (debarquement).Other forms of motion have been known to trigger it. Once back on dry land the traveller continues to feel "all at sea", unable to get their land legs back. Although alot of travellers can identify with this feeling and do actually experience it temporarily after disembarking, unfortunately in the case of MdDS sufferers it can persist for many months, even years afterwards.The symptoms are with you constantly, they never leave, nor can they be alleviated by any anti-motion sickness drugs. "Like trying to constantly walk on a mattress or trampoline" is a good description of the main symptom, not to mention the others, nausea, gaze instability/visual distrubance, constant tinnitus, I could go on.

As you will have gathered by now I am one such sufferer (over three years and counting) ever since I stepped off a boat in Spain. I'll not bore you with all the details,but it took me over six months to discover just what I had, my GP and ENT Consultant ( and neurologist) were baffled, MRI scans, numerous hearing tests/balance tests etc proved negative,no anti-motion sickness drugs work (stemitil, Serc etc).So just when I thought I was really going mad, I got a reply to an email I had sent to a large vestibular disorder association (VEDA)in America. They told me that although rare, there was infact a name for my symptoms, imagine my relief in discovering about MdDS. Now I had to set about being diagnosed "professionally". Eventually I came across the neuro-otology department at the NHNN in London who had actually seen cases of MdDS. I was finally referred to them in September of 2002, and my "treatment" there is still ongoing,(Cawthorne-Cooksey exercises) although no improvement to date. More recently I have been to the Leicester Balance Centre their treatment is in contrast to the Neurological Hospital. Who is right, what is effective, who knows?

Anyway, what I find most distressing in all of this and what I would love to see change, is the lack of knowledge of the condition here in the UK and, moreover, the lack of research. There is slightly more in America (a dedicated web-site, www.nhffoundations.net/mdds, and one doctors limited research) but again not enough. I understand that it is not life threatening, but it certainly is life debilitating and limiting, and I believe that there must be a great many people out there,wondering around either, at best being misdiagnosed (vertigo, menieres, BPV, etc) or, worse, not having any hope of finding out what is wrong with them.

Probably because of my determined "doggedness" I am one of the few lucky ones who has actually been diagnosed.As there is no miracle cure, raising awareness is crucial in helping suffers know that it "isn't all in their head". For me it just helps to feel that I am doing something positive by "spreading the word" and raising it's profile. Last summer and at the beginning of this year I had a couple of articles about MdDS printed in women's magazines, and more recently my local BBC News ran a feature; so far(sadly) I have had quite a lot of feedback, ranging from wanting to know more about the condition to one lady who appears to have had it, undiagnosed, for seven years! Surely this shouldn't happen in today's medically enlightened world? One audiologist in Cambridge told me they see at least one patient a month with MdDS, which makes me question just how "rare" it is.

Finally I am sincerely sorry for my direct approach especially if you are already aware of MdDS, and I have therefore wasted your time, but take heart in knowing that there are very few who do! It's just that ideally I wouldn't want people to go through what I had to before being diagnosed.Anyway thankyou for taking the time and trouble to read this. It is certainly not sympathy that I am after but, and sorry to keep harping on about it, awareness of this horrible condition and ultimately a cure.

Mrs. J Houghton
Cheshire


Wednesday, November 17th 2004 - 04:41:22 PM
Name: Peta Townsing
E-mail address: townsing@montaza.com.au
Homepage URL: http://www.montaza.com.au
Comments:At our Rotary meeting last night in Bridgetown, Western Australia, we met David and Rosemary Parsons from your Club who are at present touring Australia, but will be back in plenty of time for the Club's Boxing Dinner.

Great to meet fellow Rotarians from other countries, even if, in this case, you beat us at Rugby!

Best wishes,
Peta Townsing
Tuesday, November 25th 2003 - 03:09:28 AM
Name: John Alford
E-mail address: margaretalford@aol.com
Comments:Found the site without too much difficulty.
Great site informative & well presented.
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Saturday, September 20th 2003 - 07:57:45 PM
Name: Marisela
E-mail address: marisela@greyhound-dogs.com
Homepage URL: http://www.greyhound-dogs.com
Comments:Your site is phenomenal!
Tuesday, August 13th 2002 - 10:15:31 AM
Name: Gordon Reffin
E-mail address: gordon@oldref.demon.co.uk
Comments:Don,
A great site, still, and the only difficulty I ever have is when you issue misleading directions on how to get here, and then have the cheek to badmouth my beloved iMac, the Thinking Man's Machine!
Best wishes for the rest of your year.
GTR



Sunday, March 24th 2002 - 11:26:08 PM
Name: Eric K. Heads
Comments:President Don,
I'm pleased to have been able to make contact at last having taken a course in computot technology from Rtn Jim. Your enthusiasm for the site has done you proud and has put The Rotary Club of Huntingdon Cromwell in a new technology field.
Wednesday, August 1st 2001 - 04:59:31 PM
Name: Paul Dyer
E-mail address: paul_eric.dyer@which.net
Comments:Found you at last!

A very impressive and worthwhile effort. Congratulations!
Tuesday, July 31st 2001 - 09:36:06 PM
Name: Nicola Rule
Comments:Dear Don and all at Cromwell - this is a message from the
FEMALE Secretary of the YOUNGSTERS at Huntingdon Hinchingbrooke. You've beaten us to a Website and it is
very very good, hope we can do as well!

BUT!!!! who's that handsome man in the blue picture frame?

Nicola
Monday, July 30th 2001 - 07:00:33 PM
Name: Jim McKay
E-mail address: jim@jimmoco.freeservr.co.uk
Comments:Don
First enjoy your year.

I hope our website results in a greater awareness that there is a rotary life beyond just an evening meal at the White Hart, Godmanchester.

Jim
Thursday, July 26th 2001 - 10:05:43 PM
Name: Melissa Lukens
E-mail address: mlukens@dsitoys.com
Comments:BRILLIANT SITE! The rotary has a superb captain at the helm - very interesting history and work.
Wednesday, July 25th 2001 - 10:15:54 PM
Name: Michael Edwards
E-mail address: medwards584@aol.com
Comments:Well done Don

Am enjoying your meetings, hope you have a good store of jokes suitable for mixed nights! most of yours are not!
Wednesday, July 25th 2001 - 11:50:22 AM
Name: Gemma Milne
Comments:My husband has worked hard to update this site. I hope you all enjoy its contents and agree that the Rotary Club is a very hard working charity group. Keep up the good work.
Sunday, July 22nd 2001 - 08:57:29 PM
Name: Roger M Turner
E-mail address: reliableroger@aol.com
Comments:Friend of the English/American Don Newland
Thursday, July 19th 2001 - 10:40:34 AM
Name: Nigel Rayner
E-mail address: nigelnroz@breathemail.net
Comments:Don excellent work. Perhaps you can now contact me on the above address.

Cambridgeshire Community Information (InfoCam) have a website with our details on, but it still shows us as meeting at the Bull. This site comes up when searching for "rotary club of huntingdon cromwell". It was last updated 19 Jan 01.
Tuesday, July 17th 2001 - 07:00:03 PM
Name: Peter N.Foster
E-mail address: pfos@home59.demon.co.uk
Comments:An excellent website Don!!!!
Keep up the good work and don't forget a joke a week keep's the doctor away, or something like that.
Regards
Peter Foster
Tuesday, July 17th 2001 - 04:29:45 PM
Name: David L Parsons
E-mail address: DPBrampton@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://website.lineone.net/~huntingdon_rotary
Comments:A very good effort at setting up our Club website from scratch. I am sure that it will be well received within the Rotary world, and the world in general.
I commend those who have worked hard on the project.
Sunday, July 15th 2001 - 09:43:29 AM
Name: Don Newland
E-mail address: dnew171765@aol
Comments:A superb effort which can only be an enhancement to the excellent work already being carried out by Rotarians the world over. Well done to the designer, Garry Milne!
Sunday, July 15th 2001 - 07:40:35 AM
Name: Gordon T Reffin
E-mail address: gordon@oldref.demon.co.uk
Homepage URL: http://sites.netscape.net/OldrefGordon/homepage
Comments:A nifty little site, and well worth expanding by a big Texan who thinks big and is, I humbly submit, one of the bigger and most expansionist of our waisting-away brethren.
Saturday, July 14th 2001 - 09:39:59 PM
Name: Joe Newland
E-mail address: joe_b_newland@yahoo.com
Saturday, July 14th 2001 - 08:57:39 PM
Name: Garry Milne
E-mail address: g.milne1@tesco.net
Comments:Keep up the good work rotary. A very well laid out site indeed!!
Saturday, July 14th 2001 - 07:15:09 PM
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