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Dear Don and Dr. Bernie, I am the first to admit that my anger is not doing me any good. Believe me, I would rather be playing golf, bridge,the piano, decorating, gardening, working, volunteering, bowling, dancing, but I can't do any of those things. I can't even get to a fairly local ACLU meeting. However my conclusions about Bush and his cronies and their policies would be the same if I was well....having PD does give me added fire and intensity. Last Friday I drug my body out for my weekly trip to the local Red Lobster. As I was muscling my walker back in my car another car pulled up and some women got out. One was a woman with PD and a younger one got her walker out and it was like mine - 4 wheels, a seat, but it had brakes. The woman with PD had the same passive expression that cancer victims had when I went to a "party" for them at Good Samaritan in LA when I had ovarian cancer in 1979 I fled the "party." I talked to the younger woman who commented how good it was to see someone with PD out and "enjoying life" I didn't make some smart remark but gratefully received her blessings. What disturbed me was the expression on the woman with PD's face. I may have the "mask" too by now, but the younger woman told me she was in the early stages and I don't think it was the PD mask. If anyone knows what I can do as a substitute for beating up on Bush, let me know, please. Otherwise I will go down fighting, Ray PS - Dixieland music is my favorite, and I used to treadmill and dance to it. Am going to try to get back to it when pool is done. Problem is it excites me too much. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Barber Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:09 AM Subject: Re: What has happened to this list? > Hi Don, > > It is not my indented to alter your decisions one way or another, but I > wonder if you might question why such open anger occurs. > > As PD increases there is an increase in Frustration and Aggression. > I do not believe in the suppression of that which is felt. Denial of that > pain only adds to the complexity of the disease. So what's wrong with > being > angry? Better than bombing and killing the liberals, hey? > > Have you a better object in mind other than god, Bush and the Radical > Right > that wants everyone to believe as they do? > > Have you tried listening to some good old Dixieland music? > > > Bernie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Don Adams > Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:23 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: What has happened to this list? > > I happen to be a not very religious person but I am a social > conservative, > and I HAVE HAD PD OVER 7 YEARS (to answer that question quickly). I have > very troublesome and limiting symptoms on which I will not elaborate. I > am > NOT helped by reading the constant religious and political sniping and I > have just about reached the point of leaving PIEN because of that. I'm > sure > that the parties who insist on engaging in the activity to which I refer > will wish me their synonym for "God speed". I can only respond by saying > that no doubt I am not the only PWP who has had just about enough, or who > will reluctantly say goodbye. This PIEN List has gone from one which > provided useful and helpful input by PD sufferers down to what we see > today. There are undoubtedly other venues for those who wish to vent their > anger over problems with stem cell research, (as if that will provide an > instant cure!) and other political complaints. And why vent bitterness > here > over the bad hand that fate or life has dealt most of us on this list? > There are always those who see themselves as martyrs for whom nothing will > help, and as victims of George Bush and Republicans, if not God. > > Don Adams > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn