Deweyj, Glad to hear you support CCFA, it's a great organization! I only heard about it a few months after my daughters surgery, I WISH her GI would have told us about it when she was diagnosed 2 years ago. He just said she had an incurable disease, gave us a script for meds and said she had to take it the rest of her life! It was shocking, I never even heard of UC before that so we felt really alone. I now volunteer doing graphics for the Michigan chapter and soon will be going around to area GI offices to ask them to give newly diagnosed patients an information packet from CCFA. Wonderful organization, we've met some really great people!!