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Gail and Joan and others, I can see that both of you and others are unhappy with the direction that you feel some of the list members have taken the list. I can commiserate with you and understand that you are disturbed much as I have been recently with some of the things that I have witnessed and have seen happen on it too. Without pointing any fingers, as it is certain that finger pointing isnt for adults, I do not think it is fair or helps to blame the list owner, as she has been gracious enough to furnish us all a forum for our opinions, information and to share our pain. I don't know too many other places on earth that anyone would have the audience that all of us have here. We all are here, I would think, because we have a like illness to discuss and to come to some type of terms with it. All of us are feeling much the same anger and loss and acceptance as the next one too. Isnt it possible that we could allow each one to make individual decisions and accept the ones that they might make in the spirit that they are made? If one on the list has chosen to move somewhere else for her or his own reasons then maybe we can say goodbye and good luck and hope they are happy elsewhere? Doesnt it speak well of someone that they can stand on their own feet and not depend upon others for their self image? Maybe too, it is time to recognize that we all have much the same problems, how to live with an insidious disease or to see someone that we love be ill and yet feel helpless to do anything to change that? Or maybe there are others, as I am, who are unable to see the one that they care about except from a long distance, and have to wonder how they may be feeling and yet not really know? I realize that there is a lot of compassion and love on the list; I have seen and felt it first hand. Today is a new day, and maybe we can move on and appreciate the future that it represents...the one thing we have in common, a cure for parkinsons disease. *seattle* audrey friend of pwp Aussie john 49/42/38?