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Dear friends, First of all, a great big thank you to Gerry Haines, and others who helped me through a TERRIBLE ordeal with "duck itch", or swimmer's itch. It's been abut 10 days. For two days, I was flat on my back with huge areas of strawberry yoghurt-like eruptions over 20% of my skin surface. This is finally starting to shrink away. Steroid medication after one dose caused TOTAL immobility. I was frozen like a statue for almost 5 terrible hours. My SInemet, Sinemet CR and Tasmar were blocked. Then, Benadryl put me to sleep, even in the morning after a good breakfast; and moreover, i could not pass water (urine). It also slowed my PD medications down. Third, hydrocortisone cream reduced the itching, but only briefly. The itch would return so fiercely that I had fever and sweats. Triacetomone cream did not do anything significant. Neosporin helped a little bit.. Murray Charters--guess what, baking soda paste, vinegar after a cold bath, and Calamine lotion (Caladryl) did wonders. I am much better now. The Caladryl was the best of all the remedies. THANKS everybody. Oh, yes, a PD News Flash !!! I have qualified to be on the ballot as a Portland CIty Council candidate. I must decide by early September if I want to become a Candidate. The election is in November. If I run, it will be a three-way race. Sincerely, Ivan Suzman, PWP 52-39-35 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn