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Thank you, Barbara, for all you are and all you share.
E of the headdress

At 06:58 AM 12/5/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Darwin:
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>I'll see what I can come up with-- :)  BTW your sense of humor is what I
>need. On my days which aren't so good, you manage to make me smile. I do
>think we need to have a good sense of humor -- whenever I have a problem at
>work that's pd-related, I joke with my fellow workers that I'm having a "pd
>moment." This makes us all laugh together making them feel more comfortable
>around me - and I don't feel as self-conscious if I lose my balance, can't
>think of the right word, talk so softly they think they need hearing aides
>-- LOL
>
>they know i'm far from being a "party-animal" since i've always been one of
>those "computer-geeks" so when I told them not to watch me walk down the
>long hallway to my office because they might get the impression I'd been
>drinking..... they rolled their eyes and said, "Right! We'll know you
>partied all night." Then we all laughed. I am trying to make them
>comfortable around me - not afraid to ask questions about pd. (and they
>have asked some good ones). I don't want them to look at me and see the
>disease, I want them to see ME as a pwp -- the same person I was before pd,
>but maybe a little slower now.
>
>I hope everyone has a really good day today - and those of you on the other
>side of the world -- a good evening! :)))
>
>At 09:47 AM 12/4/00 -0600, you wrote:
>>Barbara K,
>>
>>Now some are going to have hurt feelings if you don't write an equally
>>creative and funny song about us!!!
>>
>>I think the surest sign of a well adjusted person is the ability to laugh at
>>the exaggerated truth in ourselves as others see it.
>>
>>More mentally and physically healthy than just funny jokes.
>>
>>Darwin
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