Juvenile Arthritis Month---July

Hello July 2019

The past few weeks have been very hectic. A family wedding, finalizing a book and starting another!!

I am so happy to announce that, “Teeth, Teeth You Are So Neat” is illustrated!! I starting writing this book this spring. I wanted to write a book that is fairly universal. That is, I wanted to write about a topic that virtually every child, adult and everyone in between could relate to. Teeth. A perfect topic!

The book is not on Smashwords yet. The reason is because I have submitted the book (not the illustrations) to a traditional publisher. It the book is accepted then I would need to pull it off of Smashwords. I most definitely will keep you posted about the outcome of the book submission.

Meanwhile I would like to highlight

Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month. #StrongerThan JA #KidsGetArthritisToo

One of the main focuses of this awareness month is to…well…. Bring awareness to the fact the children can get arthritis too. Approximately 300,000 kids have JA in the United States. There are 3 classes of JA: Juvenile Rheumatoid arthritis, Juvenile chronic arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. There are no current cures for JA. The main approach to helping someone with JA is to control the pain, decrease inflammation and maintain mobility. There are two really great websites to help you learn more about JA:

https://publichealthmaps.org/calendar/2018/7/1/juvenile-arthritis-awareness-month

https://www.arthritis.org/about-arthritis/types/juvenile-arthritis/

Also July 28 is World Hepatitis Day

As always, than you so very much for all your support.

Karen