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thanks DS401, good advice, Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "ds401" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:13 AM Subject: Re: What has /RESPONSE TO UR QUESTION > SEE BELOW PLEASE. TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. CAPS IT WILL BE SO IT > WILL BE NOTICED EASILY. > rayilynlee wrote: > >> 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. > > SOMEONE GAVE ME THIS ADVICE WHEN I ASKED. > FOCUS ON SOLUTIONS, AS OPPOSE TO DWELLING ON THE PROBLEM. ACCEPT , BUT > DON'T GIVE UP. BE URSELF, BUT BE OPEN TO CHANGE. > >> >> 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 >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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