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.
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Joan E. Snyder 48/10
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"Hang tough........no way through it but to do it."
Chris-in-the-Morning (Northern Exposure)
