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i can only speak from my own perspective and my own experience. i have been dxed for almost 13 years now and without a doubt, if i could wish the pd away, it would have been gone long ago....but that is not in my power to do. so, being a realistic optomist, i must go along each day and face the challnages it brings: sometimes those are easy to surrmount other times they leave me stuck on the floor, crying, cussing and yelling at the top of my lungs. but i remember life before pd and i remeber each day bringing to me challenges that i either managed to overcome or get beaten down by.of course, the challenges since my dxes have been really tough ones: mental issues, freedom issues, maritial issues, childrearing issues, loss of independence issues, but i feel that everything that i have experienced in my life before my dxes, was to prepare me to deal with pd. Mr. Sidney Dorros said it as "accomodate but never surrender." i can be flexible and i can bend and i can handle disappointment, not readily nor without a few tears but i can survive. the blessings that i have recieved since my dxes have far outweighed the pain, the cuts and bruises of living w/ pd. ...and please don't think for a moment that i have a easy time of it with pd. i have every symptom imaginable and i am in a wheelchair most of the time. but that has been the easy part. the menatal anguish that i suffer is sometimes almost untolerable, but thank goodness, i never get more than i can handle. but the friends and the experiences that i have had since my dxes have been the most spectacular experiences of my life....because of or in spite of having pd.....it doesn't really matter. so please, when the final days come-do not cry for me. i have had a chance to try to do something meaningful and good in my life; a chance to chase my dreams. how many healthy people can say that?? -- Joan E. Blessington Snyder 50/11 http://www.pwnkle.com/jes/jes_web/index.htm <[log in to unmask]> "Hang tough...........no way through it but to do it." Chris-in-the-Morning (Northern Exposure) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn