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So I had a couple funny (and fowl) thoughts the other day. Let me preface this by saying that as a person with YOPD (I'm 41, diagnosed at 38), my biggest struggles (so far) are balance and speech. So ... as I was hopping around the bathroom on one foot while trying to put a sock on the other, trying hard to keep my balance, it occurred to me that I'm glad I'm not a flamingo. I had this image of a flock of flamingoes with PD, each standing on one leg ... and tipping over, left and right. :-) OK, OK, so maybe it's not that funny, but it was enough to keep me laughing through the day. Next .... It would be torture to have a parrot in my house, echoing what it hears. In particular, I have problems with words beginning with 'P' .... and so this poor parrot (named Polly, of course) would try to say, "Polly want a cracker," and instead it would be something like: "P.....P....P......P......darn it, I want a cracker!" I appreciate this listserv group -- I'm getting lots of good advice / support from y'all. Thanks for allowing me to be so bold as to submit this. Cheers! Joel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn