hi all At 11:49 2001/01/28 EST, Jim Finn wrote: > Group - > >The diary of my "pig-cell" (xenotransplantation) experiences, >which is located on Janet Paterson's Website, has been revised >and updated. The "new and improved" version is available at: >http://www.geocities.com/jimcfinn/index.html > >I want to publicly thank Janet for all of her hard work in >keeping this important story on the Web. As a result of her >efforts I have received many inquiries, from around the world, >about this exciting medical technology; a procedure that offers >much hope in the fight against Parkinson's and many other >so-far-incurable diseases. > >Warm regards - > >Jim Finn > >PS - There are even a couple of photos of me and >my beloved Triumph TR7 sports car. thanks to jim for those kind words! a couple of clarifications, if i may... jim's new home page is at: http://www.geocities.com/jimcfinn/index.html in re jim's pig-cell implant diary, if you hop to the 'new" address at: http://www.geocities.com/jimcfinn/diary/index.html or if you hop to the 'old' address at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/pienet/finn/index.html through the mmmagic of thw wwweb you will end up at the same (and right) place! as i said to jim privately just now, >amid all the gloom and doom about stem cells and gwb etc >your very existence is a light in the darkness >i am proud to be able to draw attention >to it and to you a couple of years ago jim expressed concerns about "too much publicity" my responses then jumped out at me again as i worked on this revision: --------------------------------------------------------------------- june 1999: jim has my deep admiration for his courage and his determination; jim's brain cells, however, are what really excite me [!!] as i told jim: > ... your brain's story needs to be told from the rooftops >in my humble opinion > >the past three years have been a bit of a roller coaster with pd >this new surgery and that old surgery ... >this new drug and that new drug ... > >and all the while >your brain has been quietly percolating away >growing new dopamine cells... for some strange reason i have never felt deeply distressed by having parkinson's [that is, after getting over the initial ignorance-caused-fear] i have always felt that in terms of science, technology, and research 'the times they are a-changin' unrelentingly and irrevocably i feel that jim's surgery is an inspiring indicator of those changes and i also feel that this is only the beginning heck, who needs michael j. fox as a spokesman??? when we have our own james c. finn complete with pig! (ono, not another one!) --------------------------------------------------------------------- october 1999 you said this is completely up to me and it's my call well, my call is loud and clear and public when you first started sending in updates i thought that your story needed to be hollered from the rooftops and i still do i don't believe that any of us could get too much of your story whether we all realise it or not posting is not only posting for instant communication it's how information gets into the archives i am using my web-site as a semi-cyber-home for the list as a means of providing easy access to the gold in them thar hills and as a means of showing them off we have an amazing pd resource at our fingertips because of the archives but more important you are the only person i know of who has parkinson's who is getting better i want to know everything that happens to you (well.... not Everything...) and everything that gets told about you to the world so as far as i am concerned post away post until you can post no more post until the cows and the pigs come home and whatever you post i will add to the website publicity? isn't that exactly what we have been itching to get? don't restrict it now let 'er rip!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- my current sentiments exactly! janet ps for those techno-inclined all of the pages have been converted into 'pure' html text which means that the width of the text displayed adapts to the size of the window it is displayed in which is what html is designed to do janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/