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Good morning - My name is Martha and I am new to all of this (mailing lists and Parkinsons), so please be patient with me. I'm the information gatherer for my family (meaning brother and sister), so I tend to write in "our" instead of I. Tuesday morning our Mother was diagnosed as being in the early stages of Parkinsons. She's had the tremors for about 1 1/2 - 2 years, but we couldn't get her to have it checked out. Her Dr. seems to be fairly with-it, and told her straight-up that he would treat her as long as he could and then turn her over to someone more knowledgable when his information ran out. He started her on some kind of medicine (She can't remember what it's called, but thinks it starts with Sli-something and the perscription slip is at the pharmacy). I'm just trying to get as much information about the disease, it's medications and alternative medicines as possible, so at first I'll probably just "eavesdrop" unless I have a question. I hope that's all right. Well, I've run on long enough, again, thanks for your patience. Martha