Once again, Barb, you have said it better than probably most people could.
I highly agree with you that Dale owes no one an apology.  I personally do
not believe that Dale was playing the role of the dr "offering a patient
medicine if only they can solve the 3 riddles".  I feel that he was just
trying to make it interesting. What is wrong with that?
Laurie



 >Dale....
>
>SMACK!!!!! <---- Barb whomps the hapless Dale upside his head) Don't you EVER,
>EVER apologize to anyone, anywhere for being YOU and for CARING!
>(rubbing smarting fingers) <he's got a hard head> (grin)
>
>The original message that started this was written out of ignorance but with
>good intentions.  Neither of you are to blame for any great tragedy, and
>CERTAINLY no apologies should be expected or given by you.
>
>So take the damnable apology BACK, ya hear?  You're real good people, Dale!
>
>(Barb returns to cranking out reply emails to the 300+ messages that were
>dumped into her email box after MSN repaired it's downed server) <groan>
>
>Barb Mallut
>[log in to unmask]
>
>----------
>From:   PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf
>of Dale Severance join list
>Sent:   Sunday, December 15, 1996 9:21 PM
>To:     Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
>Subject:        Enough is Enough by Dale Severance
>
>                                                          Enough is Enough
>
>
>About eight weeks ago I joined this list and have enjoyed all the comments,
>jokes, serious discussions and the efforts by the group to embrace all who
>are hurting with this disease or have a friend, relative or parent encumbered
>with this affliction.
>
>At first the members spent two weeks discussing the registration issue in
>Nebraska. The topic then moved to the Pope and speculation of whether God's
>Messenger had been the beneficiary of our blessing also. At that time more
>than one person published a joke at the expense of the Pope without  a
>complainant of irreverence.
>
>>From there we went to Jokes and Euthanasia and during this period we poked
>fun at our selves and the friendships formed and even selected a Parkie of
>the year.
>
>Several days ago at 3 am I finished reading all my mail and went to IRC Chat
>Channel to talk to the old standbys but Werpuppy, motherhen and Homeboy the
>sentinels at the gate were not stationed at their posts.
>
>With no one to talk to and a Northeastern storm battering on my windows I
>decided that I needed to create and activity to get through the day. We had
>just had a challenge to name the title and author of the poem Invictius and I
>though I could spice up the day for the group and play too. I went to the
>library and took out some inspirational books.....used handicapped license
>plates for the first time.....and it had too many quotations to put in a
>message. I thus thought of the $100.00 challenge which was meant as a fun
>task for the day. Little did I know that it would cause hard feelings, mark
>me as insensitive to our illness, and stone me from the group.
>
>So in response too all who were offended by the challenge (which was clearly
>labeled in the subject box) I apologize not for what I said or did but for
>the lack of perception to anticipate that I would hurt feeling by what I said
>But I too have a blessing, of the kind visited on the Pope, as he declared to
>the world his contraction of Parkinson's Disease. My blessing is that on
>Thursday this week I finally had to give notice to my partners that I could
>not continue to work and would have to retire. The blessing is that I can now
>work full time on PD causes. I have a multitude of ideas but not enough time
>to implementing them. Now I will have more time.
>
>If you would like to see my latest project use your web browser and go to
>http://members.aol.com/dales99846/PAN.html       And while you are there take
>some
>time to fill out the form.    I called for help to build a data base and
>attach it to the web page so that the submit key would upload (or is  it
>download) the information into the data base without the necessity of
>individually typing all the information by hand. While I had a few offers of
>help, and even contacted the engineer's at prodigy to help, nothing concrete
> developed, so I bought microsoft access data base and a manual and started
>to read. From the directions I have been able to create the base and send the
>information at the press of the submit key to the data base. As I stumbled
>along the way, technical support was a big help at $ 30.00 per call. I have
>just one problem unresolved, when the information comes in to the data base
>it arrives in an up and down column instead of spreading across the page
>inserting information in the proper boxes. Even kicking the desk is not
>helping at this point. I've bribed a local college student (my daughter's boy
>friend) to look at the problem tomorrow.
>
>I'm working my way through the New Jersey support group list furnished by the
>Parkinson's Disease Foundation. I have contacted eleven support group leaders
>who are willing to help build the communication web. I have followed up the
>telephone call with a letter and mailed questionnaires to be completed and
>returned to bring into the fold those without email facilities.
>One by one I am going to contact or some volunteers will contact every
>support group in the USA to build the best communication web for PAN for the
>benefit of the PD community. I do not mean to ignore non us residents but I
>have not figured out how to deal abroad with this issue. My support group
>mentor, Tony Fazio, is about to work the State of New York Support
>Groups.....Hello anybody want to work their State I will send you forms to
>get you started with the form letters.
>
>So you see I take my condition and yours seriously and any thing I might say
>of a frivolous or insensitive nature is a slip of the tongue or an effort to
>engage in a little frivolity to lighten the day for us all.
>
>So enough is enough the $100.00 challenge is canceled and my check to PAN for
>$100.00 is on its way to them.  The answers to the contest are Mother
>Theresa, John Kennedy and Henry Ford.
>
>As I close this long winded epilogue, I leave you with a message for the day:
>
>"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."  Helen
>Keller
>
>Dale Severance
>
>