We are delighted to announce that Sheila Hawkins was elected as Chair of the FSH-MD support group on 21st November 2004 and we wish her every success in her new appointment.

Sheila has been a member of the FSH Group for over ten years, after her diagnosis in 1989 and has found the group helpful as a source of support and information.

She hopes that the group will continue to provide the same help to other people with FSH, including those people who have attended recent meetings.

Sheila has a sister with FSH who lives in California.

Apart from FSH Sheila has a full-time day job with Volunteering England, who promote volunteering. She has also travelled widely in Eastern and Central Europe (where people are much more direct about asking 'what is the matter with your leg?') and enjoys reading anything, and almost anything at the theatre.