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Welcome Mrs. Tomoko,
I would like to congratulate you on putting up a web site.
May I have the URL so I can "look"...  I work with a Japanese
gentleman and I'll get him to translate.

Best wishes ..... murray

Mrs. Tomoko wrote:
> Hello  everyone,
>
> I have been a quiet subscriber and have been amazed by the way you
> act  in a very positive  way  to  cope with each one of  the problems with
> PD.Since I joined this ML,I  have been reflecting my very passive attitude
> toward  my PD for the last
> 12 years with PD after  I was diagnosed  at the of 26.
>
>  So I  wrote to a letter to the  biggest newspaper in Japan about the
> hearing
> of Michael J Fox.
> Yet I haven't heard anything from them nor have't seen any aritcles about
> MJF whose films
>  have been watched by millions of Japanese people.
>
>   My husband said they would get interested only in something people would
> get interested in. I
> thought they would when you think about the tremendous hope the stemcells'
> transplantation
>  would  bring to the people with serious illness like Pd  or diabetes.
>
> I have been making a homepage on Pd in Japanese ,wishing I could do
> something about raising the awareness on PD in Japan.I also
> have been looking for ways  to share and exchange  the infor on PD in Japan
> and the infor you put on this ML
> in English from all over the world.
>
> I am currently living in UK.
> I am wondering why Requip (Ropinirole)is not still available in Japan .A lot
> of  evidence  has been presented  about the efficacy of the advanced PD
> as well as the early stage of  Pd.  They  haven't got Tolcapone nor
> Entacapone neither. And many of the Japanese Parkinsonians are very
> interested in Sinemet CR which is not on market in Japan. My learning curve
> on PD is very steep now.
>
> Getting involved in something positive on PD really energyes me .
> I want to get out of my shell and do what  I can do with my best ablities.
>
>
> Tomoko Abe(Mrs)


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