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Joan...as you said...this is a requiem ..but think of it as a requiem for your falling all the time and for wasting your energy...and then think of it as a new beginning....and as a PASSPORT TO FREEDOM.....one where you won't break a bone falling down...where you have access to shop and go and do things comfortably....and stand in front of something in the store and not waver or fall (I have a pd balance problem)....it takes a lot out of us to give up what we were and realize what we've become in this pd type life...I probably cried the first year...and, well, you know how it goes....I manuever fairly well but can't stand on lines in stores...but then I was given a scooter last Spring... for the future is what my friend's mother said to me...and I wanted to slap her when she said "the future"..........it belonged to her son who just passed away... and I swore I wasn't getting "in that damn thing" and it took several months before I did....only because my family was going to Vegas and I knew I couldn't walk all around the casinos...it's really great once you get used to it..and if I misjudge something in the store, I say "sorry, I'm stil practicing or that I haven't gotten my driver's license yet." and they laugh...and with kids on bikes or in carriages, I say..."do you want to race???" You can have a lot of fun with it...just give it time... In one way, you look at it as the end of your independence but really it does give you your independence back......I, too, have been very independent all my life and this pd was and is hard to adjust to....but just be the postive person I know you are from your postings...get some rest and, yes, the sun will come up and you know things always are better when the daylight comes....good luck...Joan Hartman --- Joan Hartman --- [log in to unmask] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn