Ivan, I hope I am not too late to add my name to your ever expanding fan
mailing.  My check will be in the mail tomorrow.  I belong to a support
group and have been talking up this listserv.  I believe this video will be
very helpful to all of us.

Enjoying your postings
Elizabeth
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan M Suzman <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 23, 1998 3:08 AM
Subject: Thank you all


>^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS  FROM^^^^^^^^^^
>Ivan Suzman  48/10         [log in to unmask]
>Portland, Maine   land of lighthouses 26  deg. F
>***********************************************************
>Dear friends,
>
>   How my life is changing!  It has been an inspiration and still is, as
>the videos slowly make their way out to you.  76 videos ordered - 11
>today alone.  I could never have dreamed of anything better happening to
>me.
>
>   Further orders can be processed, because I am sure more can be made.
>At the same time, the assembly line needs a little  breather!!  This
>video star has been asked to head up the World Parkinson's Day effort in
>Maine, by the state's support group President, carepartner Carl Barker.
>Nancy and he are in Arizona and they have written me with that request,
>
>  Tolcapone is coming out and I want to try it, since i'm back up to 1400
>mg of levodopa and 335 mg of carbidopa per 24 hours.  I don't get
>extended sleep, and average 12 hours "on," 6 "hours "off" and a total of
>6 hours sleep per 24 hour day.  My "offs" are too deep and tiring, and
>painful.
>
>  PLEASE keep commenting on the videos.  I feel that we ALL gain so much
>from public comments posted to the list.
>
>  I want to thank so many of you.  Yesterday morning, a computer crash
>occurred,  and my Feb 10 to 20 messages disappeared from the screen.  I
>guess they're in the hard drive somewhere.  Please forgive me if I don't
>manage individual responses to each of you at this BUSY moment.
>
>  Could Maryhelen Davila and Martha Rohrer re-send their long letters--I
>need them and want to reply ASAP.  Dennis Greene, I am working on a plan
>to get PAL format donated so that the possibility of a much cheaper video
>can happen for Australia.
>
>  Thanks again to each and everyone of you for your beautiful faith in
>me.
>
>  Kees Paap,,,thank you for your dream, your poem for Muhammad and Lonnie
>Ali ( there's always a care-partner to remember)
>
>  More tomorrow
>
> Thank  you all again and thank God I have been blessed with the voice I
>still have.
>
>   A closing thought--don't forget to fight for the full funding of the
>Udall bill. Please contact your Senators and Representativees and the
>President and ask for the $100 milllion to be assigned NOW.  We musn't
>wait silently.
>
>  Thanks everybody,
>
>Ivan Suzman  48/10
>