Can I call it my alma mater when I only earned 15 units (over two long years) and never graduated?
I picked it blind, sort of; I was looking at art programs and affordability, and not much besides that.
But they won the 2004 College World Series, which was exciting. They focus on their baseball (which has long been my favorite sport)
And unbeknownst to me, they were developing a fibromyalgia center at the Kinesiology Department, with the participation of none other than Dr. Stuart Silverman, my mother's rheumatologist and my old rheumatologist's office partner, one of the most world-renowned doctors for the treatment of fibromyalgia, and who watched me grow up from half a decade old and up.
Which brings me to today's news:
FULLERTON — The newly opened Fibromyalgia Research and Education Center at Cal State Fullerton has received a $298,102 grant from Unihealth Foundation.
The funding will be spread over two years to provide support for the FAME Project, an acronym for Fibromyalgia Assessment, Management and Education.
The project will focus on developing and implementing a Web-based training program for health care providers on the diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia and overlapping conditions. Also, the grant will be used to increase the number of trained health care providers to treat and care for FM patients and improve delivery of care to those people.
Coincidentally, during my second year at CSUF I lived not two blocks away from the National Fibromyalgia Association's then-office on Glassell Street in Orange, California. I always intended to walk down there—what for, I don't know; to introduce myself? look at it, turn around and walk back home?—but never did.
Heads up for Cal State Fullerton. I've always been proud to have attended, and I miss it very much.
