From Rayilyn Brown, I'm sorry if my post was in bad taste. It was the truth, not funny and an atttempt to be brief. I thoughteveryone with PD understood that in early stages, symptoms are sometimes not noticeable AS WAS CASE with me on my 1st try for disability, only intermittent tremor. I worked the 1st 2 yrs cauase I wasa such a good typist i could cocmpnensate, see ihow I typee now UNCORRECTED. As for being "lazy" I taught high schooll in the inner city on chemo whene i was 43-44 yrs old. I understsand that younger parkies who are able and wanta to work have trouble doing that. Believe me I wish I coulld work at 65. By my 2nd try, my tremor, dystonia, micrographia, bradykinesia were much worse so I did stagger into the office and shake and I TREMOR ALL THE TIME NOW and I cry occasionally now, and so did my grandfather who died of PD and he was a tough guy. I never cried iwth the cancer I was only trying to be of help based on my experience, Does anybody think 4 doctors would sign their names and reputations to a phony PD claim? What is disgusting is how sick people have to jump thru these ridiculous hoops to give bureaucrats a job. All this goes to show how easy itis to be misunderstood and how hard it is to get earned, justified disability $147/mo, cut 60% from original amt cause of my teacher's pension. If I am being misunderstood or anyone else thinks I am "faking" it, I want off the List. I"ll just read the posts on the website. [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn