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On 2 Jun 2000, at 2:31, davidmeigs wrote: > Anyone have any ideas about how a newbie like me can get info to my > questions on a more personal, face to face kind of way? The links I have > checked out do not have info on support groups in my local area. The > closest one I have found is a few hours drive. I don't drive so well right > now. > Dave, there is one in Bremerton at Green Mountain Rehab. Go to the WWWeb Resources.... http://www.geocities.com/janet313/pienet/wwweb/index.html Now look for WWWeb Resources 03 - Parkinson's Organizations Worldwide and scroll down to: NorthWest Parkinsons Foundation - Seattle When you go to their site click on Support for an extensive list of support groups in Wa. and Ore. including Bremerton ...... Phone the # and there you are... I intended the links at WWWeb Resources to be just the spot to go when you have this type of question... WWWeb Resources has something for everybody... Cheers .............. murray > You have all been so helpful, but I think I have hit a "technical > information overload". My brain is going to pop (lol). > > I plan to go back to my neurologist and give him a little push for some kind > of more definite diagnosis. I also plan to ask him for at least giving me > meds of a test basis to see if this would help. Is this a bad idea? I also > plan to ask him for a referral to a movement disorder specialist. > > I hope to be able to return to some kind of work, but with this stiffness, > and loss of balance & fatigue I just can't. Competing with the seeming 3 > minute doctor visit I get with this HMO, and the slow rate of definite > answers as to diagnosis is driving me Looney. > > If anyone knows of a group that meets in the Kitsap Peninsula area of > Washington state PLEASE let me know. > > Sorry for the long whine, guess I just needed to vent! > > Thanks my new online friends, > > David M. [log in to unmask] View the Parkinson's Awareness Links at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/pienet/wwweb/index.html