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At 04:55 2000/07/24 -0500, joan wrote: >Greg & Janet, Juanita & Murray: This in no way reflects on the way you >personally react to your own battle w/ PD...this is mine alone-just as >you must bear your own reactions to this disease. It has always been my >contention that, no matter how many support & surround you with love, PD >is a lonely disease-so is life for that matter, because when it comes >right down to it-we're all in this journey alone-unless we decide to >take spiritual help...which I will not get into here. All I can tell you >is this: since my dxes 10 yrs ago at the age of 39 and despite 2 >pallidotomies (1 wildly successful, the other nearly killing me-I had to >relearn to talk, eat, etc.), I have become, either because of or in >spite of the PD, a much better person. I have had the opportunity to >co-author & co-edit a soon-to-be-published book: "Voices From The >Parking Lot-Parkinson's Perspectives," and I am now planning to visit >NYC with my husband (neither of us has ever been there). While there, we >will attend a reception featuring the artwork of Jane Scott & Marc Esser >& "Voices" with my friend Dennis from Australia at the National Arts >Club in Gramercy Park. Also, after doing promotion & publicity for the >BOOK, we will be taking orders for the book during the National Unity >Walk and afterwards we will be guests at reception at a Manhattan >restaurant to "Meet The Authors." This would not all be possible without >my participation in this list. I would have never met the very talented >Dennis Greene, the wonderfully generous and "get-things-done" Margaret >Tuchman nor the ever indomitable Don McKinley-to whom the book is >dedicated, nor a vast majority of the talented authors, whose work >graces our BOOK. For myself, and only myself, I am grateful for the door >that was slammed shut in my face-forcing me to find other windows of >opportunity. yes! janet janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: "[log in to unmask]" smail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada