Today, April 16, we lost a very dear and loving friend. It is not yet known what happened to her, but she had RSD, a very horrible disease that kills millions of people every day.

I only wish doctors here would learn about it and help the ones that live here with it. I have tried to get the doctors here to learn about it and I have taken information to the hospital. They refuse to read or even learn about it. My daughter has this horrible beast that lives in her, and her 10-year-old daughter is scared about what is going to happen to her mother.

RSD is a very real and horrible disease. We have even tried to have fund raisers, which were a great success, but the awareness is still not out there in Big Spring.

People that you tell of this do not or do not want to believe you. They say it is all in your head and that you are crazy. In one way, being crazy is true, because RSD can and will drive you crazy — to where you do not want to live anymore.

Wake up doctors. Please learn about this. It is and can be 100 times worse than cancer.

How many more people have to die from this?

We like to hold fund raisers and send the money to RSD awareness research, just as Relay for Life does. I have two web sites that you can go to and learn about it — www.rsdsa.org and rsdhope.org.

Please hear our cries and open your minds to this horrible beast that keeps its victims in horrible pain 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Marillyn Miears

Big Spring