bonnie
thanks for printing this article on the list.she didnt use much of my materail
- said it was too controversial = but they printed 4 pictures of me - one very
unflattering of me personally but great for parkinsons -took up nearly the
whole front page of the section. Actualy none ofo the pictures werevery
pretty, but they were realikstic depictins of esercises - anyway it is all in
a good cause.....
thanks
hiklary



Bonnie Rowley wrote:
> 
> All,
> I hope this isn't a repeat. Jeana sent it while my pc was in the shop & I
> just dug it out from under a mound of e-mails.
> 
>   March 12, 2000
> 
> New treatments to control Parkinson's disease
> By Karen Goldberg Goff
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
> 
>                Jeana Bartlett first noticed her right hand trembling while
> she sat in the bleachers watching her sons play football. She attributed the
> shaking to nerves. The shaking kept occurring though, and neurological tests
> proved inconclusive. The trem-ors got worse, and Mrs. Bartlett, then in her
> mid-30s, became more scared. She was downright terrified when she was driving
> and could not take her foot off the accelerator.
>      Further tests showed the Augusta, Ga., woman had Parkinson's disease, a
> neurological condition doctors initially dismissed because of her young age.
>      "Parkinson's was considered 'an old person's disease,' " she says. "But
> I was actually relieved to find out that is what I had. I thought I was a
> hypochondriac or psychotic or had a brain tumor."
>      About 1 million people in the United States suffer from Parkinson's
> disease. About 20 percent of that number are younger than 40, according to
> data from the National Parkinson's Foundation. Though the disease is not
> fatal, it gets progressively worse. To a younger person, that can mean
> decades of adjusting medication, undergoing surgery and dealing with
> sometimes debilitating physical symptoms.
>      "The issues for young people with Parkinson's are very different," says
> Hilary Blue, a 51-year-old Annandale woman who has had Parkinson's for 27
> years. "Older people are expected to get all sorts of conditions as they age.
> The acceptance is very difficult when you are young. You have to think about
> issues like will you be able to work or take care of your children."
  




   Mrs. Blue, who had to give up driving a car a few years ago, says she is
> considering having DBS. She belongs to a support group in Annandale and takes
> part in a Parkinson's exercise class.
>      "I definitely find it helps," she says of the class. "It keeps my
> muscles working and helps me to cope. I dream of being alive when the cure
> comes, so I need to keep my muscles moving."
> 
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> Bonnie
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