Hi Bill: I can only hope it wasn't a chunk of falling sky
that caused that head injury. Can contribute neither falls,
broken bones, head injuries, or a MVA to the genesis of my
PD. Exposure to carbon monoxide as an infant, but that is
supposed to be a different mechanism, and perhaps a
different form of PD.    Carole H.

--- "William A. Parrette" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>         On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Camilla Flintermann wrote:
>
> > ...
> > Since Peter is not the only PWP who has suffered a
> severe blow to the head
> > prior to developing symptoms, I had to wonder-----
> could this really be a
> > trigger that set  it off?  ...
>
>         This  is  something that I, too, had wondered
> about.  But, the
>      length of time between injury and PD onset makes it
> unlikely.
>
>         I suffered a small skull fracture in an
> automobile accident in
>      1975.  The onset of my PD symptoms was in 1995.
>
>         And,  for  some  reason,  my  mother tried to
> take part of the
>      blame by saying that I was a "forceps baby."  I
> think she worried
>      that  this had caused my life-long minor tremor that
> perhaps grew
>      to full-blown PD.
>
>         I  don't  think either event had anything to do
> with it.  But,
>      it did give rise to thought.
>
> Bill--
>   ...who sometimes thinks that Chicken Little was right.
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