SEE BELOW PLEASE. TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.  CAPS IT WILL BE SO IT
WILL BE NOTICED EASILY.
rayilynlee wrote:

> Dear Don and Dr. Bernie,
>
> I am the first to admit that my anger is not doing me any good.
> Believe me,
> I would rather be playing golf, bridge,the piano, decorating, gardening,
> working, volunteering, bowling, dancing, but I can't do any of those
> things.
> I can't even get to a fairly local ACLU meeting.
>
> However my conclusions about Bush and his cronies and their policies
> would
> be the same if I was well....having PD does give me added fire and
> intensity.
>
> Last Friday I drug my body out for my weekly trip to the local Red
> Lobster.
> As I was muscling my walker back in my car another car pulled up and some
> women got out.  One was  a woman with PD and  a younger one got her
> walker
> out and it was like mine - 4 wheels, a seat, but it had brakes.
>
> The woman with PD had the same passive expression that cancer victims had
> when I went to a "party" for them at Good Samaritan in LA when I had
> ovarian
> cancer in  1979  I fled the "party."
>
> I talked to the younger woman who commented how good it was to see
> someone
> with PD out and "enjoying life"  I didn't make some smart remark but
> gratefully received her blessings.
>
> What disturbed me was the expression on the woman with PD's face. I
> may have
> the "mask" too by now, but the younger woman told me she was in the early
> stages and I don't think it was the PD mask.
>
> If anyone knows what I can do as a substitute for beating up on Bush,
> let me
> know, please.

SOMEONE GAVE ME THIS ADVICE WHEN I ASKED.
FOCUS ON SOLUTIONS, AS OPPOSE TO DWELLING ON THE PROBLEM.  ACCEPT , BUT
DON'T GIVE UP.  BE URSELF, BUT BE OPEN TO CHANGE.

>
> Otherwise I will go down fighting, Ray
> PS - Dixieland music is my favorite, and I used to treadmill and dance to
> it.  Am going to try to get back to it when pool is done.  Problem is it
> excites me too much.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernard Barber Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:09 AM
> Subject: Re: What has happened to this list?
>
>
>> Hi Don,
>>
>> It is not my indented to alter your decisions one way or another, but I
>> wonder if you might question why such open anger occurs.
>>
>> As PD increases there is an increase in Frustration and Aggression.
>> I do not believe in the suppression of that which is felt. Denial of
>> that
>> pain only adds to the complexity of the disease. So what's wrong with
>> being
>> angry? Better than bombing and killing the liberals, hey?
>>
>> Have you a better object in mind other than god, Bush and the Radical
>> Right
>> that wants everyone to believe as they do?
>>
>> Have you tried listening to some good old Dixieland music?
>>
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Don Adams
>> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:23 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: What has happened to this list?
>>
>>        I happen to be a not very religious person but I am a social
>> conservative,
>> and I HAVE HAD PD OVER 7 YEARS (to answer that question quickly). I have
>> very troublesome and  limiting symptoms on which I will not elaborate. I
>> am
>> NOT helped by reading the constant religious and political sniping and I
>> have just about reached the point of leaving PIEN because of that. I'm
>> sure
>> that the parties who insist on engaging in the activity to which I refer
>> will wish me their synonym for "God speed".  I can only respond by
>> saying
>> that no doubt I am not the only PWP who has had just about enough, or
>> who
>> will reluctantly say goodbye. This PIEN List has gone from one which
>> provided useful and helpful input by PD sufferers down to what we see
>> today. There are undoubtedly other venues for those who wish to vent
>> their
>> anger over problems with stem cell research, (as if that will provide an
>> instant cure!) and other political complaints. And why vent bitterness
>> here
>> over the bad hand that fate or life has dealt most of us on this list?
>> There are always those who see themselves as martyrs for whom nothing
>> will
>> help, and as victims of  George Bush and Republicans, if not God.
>>
>> Don Adams
>>
>>
>>
>>
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