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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)