ATTENTION: Last meeting of the year!!

Our Farewell/ closing meeting will be:

Friday at 12pm on the Subway deck

–> Discussion of next years events
–> New position induction

If you are interesting in taking on a project or position with PHR PLEASE COME.

**Don’t forget:

Kimberly Fund awardee ceremoney

12pm on Second Floor Balcony of the Physio/ ICM departments TOMORROW, Wed. Dec.3!!
See you all there…

Award presentation ceremony: Wed, Dec 3rd at noon on the balcony above CR6.
The national media, the dean, and certain faculty members will all be there.
This is the time for PHR to shine.

EVERYONE

is welcome to come to the ceremony!
**If you would like to participate in the ceremony, please let us know.**
Other clubs will also be there to present their awards to their sponsored patients as well.

Patrick Breedy Total Award: $5000

Patrick will now be able to go to St. Lucia to get his much needed shunt put in. He is currently at PMH right now getting dialysis through his neck. This procedure will allow Patrick to go back to a more normal lifestyle and significantly improve his quality of life. Both him and his mother are very appreciative that we are able to help him, especially since he’s been trying to get this procedure done for the past few months with no luck.

Shana Paul Total Award $5000

Shana has just been recently released from PMH. She was admitted last week for bouts of unconsciousness. She currently has a debt to PMH of over $7000 EC. The $5000 will go towards Shana’s next semester’s worth of dialysis treatment costs and medications (which she is currently NOT taking bc she cannot afford them). The difference will be used by Dr Sharma to negotiate with the Minister to get Shana’s debt completely resolved with PMH. Shana wanted us to personally thank you (PHR!!!) for helping her. She is very very grateful.

Coffee Talk details:

Movie: “SOUTHERN COMFORT”
When: Thurs. 20 Nov 2008 @ 7:00pm
Where: Classroom 2B
**FREE popcorn and juice**

Summary: A 90-minute feature-length documentary about the life of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female to male transsexual who lives in the back hills of Georgia. “A hillbilly and proud of it,” he cuts a striking figure: sharp-tongued, bearded, tobacco pipe in hand. Robert passes so well as a male that the local Klu Klux Klan tried to recruit him to become a member.

Though his home is nestled among tranquil hills dotted with hay bales, Robert confronts a world as hostile to him as if he were an African American in the ante-bellum South. He was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, then turned away by more than two dozen doctors who feared that taking on a transgendered patient might harm their practice.

SOUTHERN COMFORT follows the final year of Robert Eads’ life. Beginning in spring, he falls deeply in love with Lola, a male-to-female. That summer, his mother and father drive ten hours to visit their “lost daughter,” a trip they know may be their last. His final dream is to make it to the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, the nation’s preeminent transgender gathering. Beating the odds, he addresses a crowd of 500 and takes Lola to “The prom that never was.”

The voices in SOUTHERN COMFORT are not only rarely heard, but also are commonly thought to be non-existent. A rare blend of humor, romance, and tragedy, SOUTHERN COMFORT is the first non-fiction film to intimately tell a trans-to-trans love story, set against a disturbing tale of gender bias as it unfolds before the camera.”

See you all there… Bring your friends!

“Would you treat a transgendered person?”

Movie: Southern Comfort
When: Thurs. 20 Nov 2008 @ 7:00pm
Where: Classroom 2B

FREE popcorn and juice will be provided!