I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Carolyn S. Magura. My purposes in this email are: 1) to provide you with a summary profile of myself; and 2) to offer to you a PROPOSAL for the use of my personally authored MS-Specific Disability Insurance Workbook for NMSS members nationwide, like we offer it to Portland Chapter Members. Ann Balzell is also addressed in this email to keep her in the loop, as she is my primary contact with the Portland Chapter.

I have been successfully managing Multiple Sclerosis for over 45 years, and was a Human Resources Executive for over 30+ years. I believe that I have been a member in good standing with the Portland Chapter of the NMSS since 1979. (Some might call me a "PERSISTENT" Patient's Advocate member!)

I'm the author of a very successful Workbook designed to assist people with disabilities become eligible for any disability insurances for which they are qualified. Because I personally have MS, the first "iteration" of this Workbook - attached in pdf format - was MS-specific. I have since edited the Workbook to make it "disease-generic", as the process is applicable, whatever your disabling condition is.

My passion and mission to assist people with disabilities has grown from assisting them better document and corroborate their symptoms to better communicate their symptoms to attain disability insurances for which they qualify, to a full-support website dedicated to assisting people with disabilities in other areas too. My website is: http://www.DisabilityKey (http://www.disabilitykey.com ).com

My website contains literally tons of FREE information - 2 blogs, downloadable articles and ebooklets. The DisabilityKey (http://www.disabilitykey.com ) Workbook - generic - is for purchase through the website for a minimum purchase of $9.95. The funds for the sale of this workbook and from the ads on the website go to pay my business partners and webmaster, for managing my website. I do not personally receive compensation. The free downloadable ebooklets focus on: "I'm disabled, not unabled" ( ADA and Reasonable Accommodations) for employees; a similar one for Employers; How to document your inability to perform "gainful employment"; an example of a completed RFC/PCE (Residual Functional Capacity/Physical Capacity Evaluation).

My purposes in maintaining and continually updating the website through the blogs and the ebooklets are: to assist people who are disabled become Chronic Disease Self-Managers; to become Expert Patients; and, to partner with their Doctors to benefit from Patient-Centered Health Care.

In addition, I am an active participant in 2 Committees with the Portland Chapter, and periodically conduct a well-received and attended 3 hour workshop for people with MS wanting to apply for SSDI. Also, I've recently enhanced my expertise to include: SSI and Medicaid information, and working while receiving SSDI benefits through the "Ticket to Work" program.

My "bona fides" for being able to provide these services are:

1) My personal and professional experiences and expertise qualified me to be able to develop and implement the process depicted in the DisabilityKey (http://www.disabilitykey.com ) Workbook that allowed me to qualify for and receive LTD the first time around, and actually work for full salary, triggering reasonable accommodations for an entire year.

2) This same experience and expertise allowed me to qualify for, and receive SSDI, the first time I applied, in under 30 days.

3) Having completed the Workbook and the website in 2003, I have been an advocate for, and Mentor for Biogen and Answers.com. I offer assistance through various websites. I recently tracked the assistance of my 500th person WORLDWIDE, suffering from many different types of disabling conditions. The process, if FOLLOWED, has been successful in the US , Canada , Great Britain , Scotland , Australia , and New Zealand .

4) I recently partnered with Ann Balzel and Kim Southworth from the Portland Chapter in becoming Chronic Disease Self-Manager Certified Trainers.

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When I conduct seminars through the Portland Chapter of NMSS, the Chapter charges $10.00 - the price to produce the 100+ paged Workbook (about another 50+ pages have been added, as, somehow, some of the form letters failed to find their way into the Workbook; also, I now include the new ebooklets when we conduct the seminar). I receive no compensation for these services.

Should you desire to use my Workbook Nationwide - and I strongly hope that you do, because the process actually works - I'd like to hear your suggestions as to how my Business Partners can be compensated by this. Perhaps we ask people to purchase the MS-specific copy - updated and separate for purchase at $9.95 on the website through Paypal. I can see you deciding to offer a link from each chapter's website to my website, perhaps.

Then, I'd be willing to partner with you in National, to videotape one of my local 3-hour seminars, to be available for each State's chapter to use.

I'm also working with the Portland Chapter to devise a Q & A on this topic for the Chapter's website. I'd love to see this become a nationwide feature.

Finally, I will begin a trial to be physically at the local Chapter's offices, to personally assist people who have difficulty understanding the process work the process. Over time, I'd love to train others who successfully use the process in other locations help their chapter members face-to-face also.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this long email. I've been thinking about this proposal for years, and am glad to finally be able to present it to you

Carolyn S. Magura
http://www.disabilitykey.com
Unlocking Your Disability Benefits!.