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LOL! now I know why I am so angry at Mr Parkinson: he is taking my pepperoni, one by one! "What are you doing? *slap* Leave them alone! *slap*" :-) Thank you Rita, that was a good one! /John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: Re: shaking vs rigidity > The simplest explanation for this that I ever received (shaking vs. rigidity, > stuttering vs. soft speech, etc....) is this: > > Envision the substantia nigra as a Supreme Pizza (with everything on > it).......80% of that pizza is missing/damaged when we are diagnosed with PD. > I may be missing all of the pepperoni and some of the cheese.......you may > be missing most of the crust, but have all of the pepperoni left......someone > else has only mushrooms and tomato sauce, etc. So we each have an individual > version of the 20% of the substantia nigra that is working.......hence > varying symptoms. > > Rita > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn