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Anything a PWP wants to discuss is okay by me. After all that is why this list was started. So PWP would have a forum, as it were, to discuss how PD has affected their daily lives, and to support each other. If I don't want to discuss it I won't! Now it has become such a splintered group ,that half the time I'm not certain of the relationship between the person posting ,and PD or PWP's. Would you PLEASE sign your posts as to whom you are? I have this strange thing, I like to know to whom I'm reading. It gives me a better perspective on whether you speak and understand "Parkinese" I don't care if you don't want to put your age, but please let us know what your relationship to this list really is. This list is beginning to remind me of a poster, which I had in my office for many years. When you first glanced at this huge poster all you could see was upside down semi circles with two black dots in them, toward the front was a larger , looked like an upside down bowl, with * * under it. The caption read: SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO REMEMBER THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EXERCISE WAS TO DRAIN THE SWAMP WHEN YOU ARE UP TO YOUR EYEBALLS IN ALLIGATORS Then after you read the caption, you could see the poor man, indeed, up to his eyeballs in alligators. Let's remember the objective of our exercise right now is to get the S.2015 Stem Cell Research Bill passed. This bill has only one purpose, to use Embryonic Cells to a more noble end than to be flushed down the drain, as is happening to them now. These Cells can never become living beings because they lack a host. Research on these condemned cells could , hopefully ,hasten a cure for many, many, chronic illnesses, PD only being one of many. It has absolutely nothing to do with abortions, selling baby body parts, nor cloning humans, nor cloning humans with animals. The NIH has very strict guidelines in place as to the way they can be used. The Bio-Ethics Committee has even approved . S.2015 MUST become our number one priority if we don't want to be condemn ourselves , or our loved ones , to a living hell and having Parkinson's Disease listed on our death certificates as cause of death. Let's us all remember the object of this exercise and get busy emailing Senators . Urge them to vote for S.2015, without Sen. Brownback's amendments. just me, Marjorie very definitely a PWP 67/58/55