Great letter to the editor, Joan, and I agree we have a big problem with
apathy....it seems many  don't move until they are personally affected and
even then inaction is too common.  Let's hope Obama makes it to the WH.

Ray
Rayilyn Brown
Board Member AZNPF
Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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From: "Joan Blessington Snyder" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 9:56 AM
Subject: there are several things that i would like ...


to either comment on or to bring to your attention.
first of all, i would like to add my voice to the side that recommends early
sinemet intervention with the diagnosis of parkinson's disease. i have been
dxed w/ pd for 18 yrs and have been taking sinemet for at least 19 yrs. i
have to admit that i have had to increase the doseage and the timing of my
medicine (i now take 16-18 carbo-levo dopa 25/100's a day, 9 comptan, 5-1.5
mgs. of mirapex, 2-3 clonazepam, 3-100 mgs. of amantadine, 1-2 350 mgs. of
generic soma, 1-100 mgs. of generic zoloft, 1-10 mg. of generic ambien each
day and i have just started my fourth week on the 6 mg.neupro patch plus a
few vitamins and some tylenol thrown in for a grand total of about 40 pills
a day.) while you must think that i am a walking pharmacy but somehow my
body seems to require this cocktail of pills to keep me from turning into a
philodendron. i haven't always taken this much but it has worked well for
me; i guess i must be the living proof of living well through chemistry
also, if you would like to see a video presentation of my shake, rattle &
roll 2007 please visit my website at:
www.calipso-pd.org
this was put together by my friends lindy jones and steve retterrer and i
think captures the essence of the day.
also at that sight, i have put together, what i call "a hitchicker's guide
to my presidential candidate." it is a story in words and photos about my
association with presidential candidate Barack Obama which i am making into
a scrapbook to give him at his inauguration. (talk about your optomists!!)
and finally, to see a letter to the editor that was in yesterday's Peoria
Journal Star, please go to:
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/020208/FOR_BFLF62T4.003.php
  thank you for this forum.

Joan Blessington Snyder   57/18
www.calipso-pd.org
"Hang tough...no way through it but to do it."

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