Seems to me your friend needn't be embarrassed, he's doing the best he can...
like the rest of us.

Quoting Joan Blessington Snyder <[log in to unmask]>:

> dear pretty peggy and nina and all...
> of course i remember the first day that we met!! i was nervous as all get
> out; and i thought that my ceaseless chattering would completely blow any
> kind of first impression that i could ever make. i was so impressed with you
> and brenda. sure, i had done little things but here i was in the presence of
> two women who were going big time in their quest for a cure!! it was indeed
> you two who inspired me. i would love to get ahold of those old journals from
> plwp. can you help me find the files if they are still online. i realize,
> now, that those are a goldmine of pd info.
> i have a friend who is about my age, who is a recovering alcoholic, who is
> very much into exercise and body building now and who came to me for advice
> and counsel after he was dxed w/ pd in early 2007. he was upset because his
> first attempt to get SSI was turned down. i told him that was par for the
> coarse and to keep on trying; that he would eventually get it. we became very
> close friends and he became a member of my board of directors for
> CALIPSOconnection. I didn't try to hide anything from him. He saw me at my
> best and my worst and he met dozens of other pwp's from all over in various
> stages of pd. he seemed fine with all of this and i was pleased with his
> progress in learning to cope with the situatiohn. then, three weeks ago,  i
> recieved a frantic call from the er. my friend had fallen off the wagon and
> in a drunken depression, had tried to commit suicide. fortunatly, he was to
> too drunk to do any real damage to himself but did make a horrific mess of
> cuts and blood. there were other issues involved in his cry for help-parents,
> wife, girlfriends, etc., but now that he is getting better, he is so
> embarrased and humiliated. i told him that this was not the problem of other
> people; that it was between him and his God. anyway, to make a long story
> short, my friend has come thru this near tragedy with improved relationships
> with his mother, his children but most especially with himself. he has
> discovered that he wants to live his life to the fullest and he wants to
> commit his life to advocacy and to use his skills as a stockbroker to help
> people w/o any other options and w/ diseases to apply for and to obtain SSI.
> so even tho it took a catastriophic  event to make him realize that he had to
> get on the ball and help with the effort before his symptoms disable him,
> good has come out of his brush with death. i know many people who think that
> they can 'handle' it and before they know it, they cannot 'handle' it. i was
> one of those people.
>
>
> Joan Blessington Snyder  56/17
> www.calipso-pd.org
> "Hang tough....no way through it but to do it."
> Chris in the Morning       Northern Exposure
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