United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

I was watching a show that said Martin Sheen's left arm is 3 inches shorter than his right due to complications at birth & it got me wondering. Does anyone know anymore?

Yes he does, but we cannot contact him but no response

he doesn't seem to want to address it... UBPN has tried to get him involved in it and he has never replied.

It would be wonderful to find someone with celebrity status to make a public announcement about BPI.

I think it'll have to happen to some celeb baby "now" - with all these new celeb moms... they'll make a HUGE stink out of it. But I hope it never happens to them, too.

thats an interesting factiod! I wish he'd respond, it would be cool if someone famous could address it, as said before.
~mel

He actually spoke about it in a Readers Digest Article years ago. We all tried to contact him and no one got a response.
I guess we were not that interesting to him. He is more a political activist .... It is too bad because he could have helped but it appears he choose not to. We spoke with Sen. Dole and wrote to him but he also did not take a real interest in UBPN. He signed a few of his books etc. Sen.Dole is TBPI and when he lost the use of his unaffected arm I wrote him a long letter and did not get a response. It's a shame that none could take up the cause of all the bpi injured and help us with care and prevention.

here's the thread where it was discussed in 2002:

http://ubpn.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1 ... een#p14617