Hooray for Wendy!!  It's late and I don't have time to say all I know to say
right now.  BUT YOU ARE RIGHT!  And I just wanted to give you a pat on the
back where everyone can see it.  If all of us really WOULD get on the band
wagon and do exactly as you say................WOW, More is better
sometimes....  {{{{{{{{{a squeeze from me}}}}}}}}}}}}}  Sharon Starr
-----Original Message-----
From: Tebay, Wendy M <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Happy Endings survey comment


>To:  Wendy   From:  Wendy
>
>That's pretty funny.  Don't encounter that too often.
>
>I would  venture to say that your mom probably had pd symptoms before she
>was actually diagnosed.  I know I did, especially now that I understand the
>disease more.  One of the signs was that my softball throwing was going
>downhill, and until someone else commented on it to me, I wasn't sure if I
>was imagining it or not.  It definitely sneaks up on ya slowly.  Another
>clue, looking back, came when I was on a ski trip with a bunch of people.
>We were all sitting around at this table, playing a drinking game (sshhh!
>don't tell anyone!), which involved, at certain times, quickly tapping
one's
>hand twice, right in succession.  When everyone started yelling at me that
I
>was tapping too softly and that they couldn't tell whether I had tapped
once
>or twice, I told them all that they had had too much  to drink, that I had
>obviously tapped twice.  Drunk they may have been, but I now know they were
>right, as quick, repetetive movements have become harder and harder for me.
>It's funny how one begins to see the subtle changes affecting otherwise
>normal activities (not that playing drinking games was a "normal"
>activity!).
>
>As far as healings, I guess in a (not-so?) subtle way, I'm trying to shape
>both mine and everyone else's reality here by through repeated exposure to
>the idea of pd healings.  Like psychologists say about learning, you don't
>really absorb new info completely until you've seen/heard it at least seven
>times.  I think that if we all hear about it enough, even tho' we don't
>believe it at first,, with repeated exposure, it kinda becomes a
>"background" reality, which hopefully eventually moves to the foreground,
>and then out of our imaginations, out into the  "real" world.  I truly
>believe that if enough of us begin to believe in the possibility, we'll
>eventually reach some critical mass where belief actually becomes reality,
>and then things will really begin happening.
>
>It's kinda like years ago, when the book Megatrends was written.  In it the
>author brought up the concepts (possibilities) which outlined where he saw
>society and technology going.  (concepts which are today represented by the
>Internet, and the ability to do commerce via it;  what they call "smart"
>homes, where a computer basically runs everything electrical;  the
>environmental movement, which is changing the way business is done; etc.)
I
>don't know if all of these examples are definitely out of that book, I
>haven't actually read it myself, altho' I've heard other people's
summaries.
>Anyway, ya'll get the idea.  Back then, no one could conceptualize the
>Internet, computers, etc., and the effect they'd have on our lives.  But
the
>seeds of the ideas had been planted, which then led to other people
>exploring the ideas further, and so on and so on, which all eventually led
>to their real invention and development.   That's where I can see this
>healing stuff going if we don't let the idea die.
>
>Ya know, if we're gonna put so much time and effort into the Udall Bill and
>securing funding, we've got to do it with the belief that a cure is
>imminent, but not get depressed when it doesn't come immediately.  I think
>politicians would respond even more positively if we came at them from a
>position of belief.  If we don't really believe in a cure (at least in our
>lifetimes), then we push that date out further.   By collectively believing
>in this cure, we then present ourselves from a place of greater power.  You
>have to be ready to be healed, as well, whenever that times comes.
>Irregardless of the drugs and surgeries that are developed with this money,
>they can't heal you if you still cling to the idea that this disease is
>fatal and relentlessly progressive.
>
>Anyway Wendy, I'm not criticizing you in at all.  Nor am I referring to
>"you" necessarily when I say "you".  It's a more general term.  I just get
>to rambling sometimes.
>
>Hope that you and your mom, and all of us, can later become subscribers to
>the as yet to be formed email list called "PD survivors."  I'll sign up!
>
>Wendy Tebay
>