Despite courteous help from several kind people, the email addresses I've been given do not seem to work. I do not get messages that say my email is in error, but that the email address I'm sending to is invalid.
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>Hello,
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>We are interested in Parkinson's Disease because we recently learned that my husband's great great grandfather Moses F. Drake (1832 Maine-1905 Oregon)had been diagnosed as having "paralysis agitans' when he was admitted to a "county hospital" in Multnomah Co., Oregon Nov. 22, 1904. He died of "senility" March 6, 1905. My husband had not even known of this grandfather until this summer.
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>>Moses F. Drake's daughter Melissa Adelia Drake Reed (1867 Iowa-1911 Tacoma, WA) was my husband's great grandmother. We learned about her in detail this summer as well; we only read of her as "Della Drake" before. She died at age 44 in 1911. In her two obituaries we obtained, it says she had had a nervous disorder of some kind as well as "spasms" and terrible nervous headaches. She was not usually left alone, but unfortunately she had one of these "attacks' when she was alone and died (the family "legend" was that she had killed herself, but the obits. say clearly she did not). We wonder if she might have been developing Parkinson's Disease as her father had. We do not even know if she knew he had died in 1905. Her parents were divorced in 1890, and he sort of disappeared.
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>>Now we are concerned about a young daughter, age 26, of my husband's and if her numerous health problems might be associated with Parkinson's Disease.
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>>It took a while to get the medical history for Moses F. Drake from the Multnomah County Archives, but when we did I read the 1817 article on the "shaking palsey" that Dr. James Parkinson wrote, as well as an article/talk, found online, by Dr. Robert A. Fink ("History, Progress, and Current Treatment of Parkinson's Disease, 1817-2002") who suggested this listserv. Is what we are interested in OK to talk about?
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>>Could you please suggest articles or books on what type of treatment Moses F. Drake might possibly have received in 1904 in a place like Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon? I can check with OHSU as well.
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>>Thank you,
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>>Paulette and Ron Tatum
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>>>To: Paulette and Ron Tatum <[log in to unmask]>
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>>>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:52:37
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>>>Your subscription to the PARKINSN list (Parkinson's Information Exchange
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>>>Please send a message to the list members (if you want to) introducing
>>>yourself, perhaps telling us how you found us, and any
>>>Parkinson's-related topics you would like.
>>>
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>>>Let me introduce myself. I am a secretary for four faculty members in the
>>>School of Nursing, McMaster University. In September, 1992, I was
>>>diagnosed as having Parkinson's ... hence my interest in this list.
>>>
>>>My purpose in starting the list was the exchange of information about
>>>Parkinson's. The list rapidly changed into the largest support group I
>>>know. Besides its original purpose, the list has become 'a means of
>>>feeling connected' to others... a way of feeling we're not alone... of
>>>making the road of living with pd easier to bear.
>>>
>>>I have always felt that we hear each other better on the list because we
>>>can't see each other. Symptoms, age, colour, race, don't interfere. The
>>>list knows no countries, has nothing to do with money... there's no
>>>"what's in it for me?"
>>>
>>>But these same qualities mean our words are open to misinterpretation.
>>>Since others can't see our wry smile or wink or hear our tone of voice, a
>>>goal of keeping it "short & sweet" can result in appearing abrupt.
>>>
>>>Also, the same word can have different meanings and different shades of
>>>meaning to different people in different areas of the world so care must
>>>be taken in both your writing and your reading of the messages.
>>>
>>>Flaming and selling are not allowed. Please send messages in plain text
>>>only. Do not make any changes in medication or any treatments without
>>>consulting your physician. Be kind. Be honest. Share the time fairly....
>>>if you think you have taken more than your share of the list resources,
>>>you just might have.
>>>
>>>Keep it generally related to Parkinson's. Don't abuse the generosity of
>>>the University of Toronto's free gift of the list. Don't include all of
>>>the message to which you are replying. Use plain text with no
>>>attachments. Wash your hands with soap before you eat. :) In other words,
>>>use the same common courtesy that you would elsewhere.
>>>
>>>We need everyone's voices if we are going to make a difference in the
>>>care and treatment of pd and the motivation and funding of research.
>>>Speak up. Tell your story. Ask your questions. Answer questions.
>>>Debate/argue about the answers. Debate/argue about the goals,
>>>administration, day-to-day functioning of the list. Tell a joke... but
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>>>
>>>The messages on the Parkinsn list may be personal but they are NOT
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>>>just that: an illusion.
>>>
>>>Never, in the history of this planet, has this kind of relationship
>>>existed. We meet in a place that has no walls. We talk to our friends
>>>whom we have never seen. We care deeply for other members whom we will
>>>never physically hug. Folks, we're making it up as we go along, so any
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>>>
>>>Barbara Patterson Owner Parkinsn John Cottingham co-owner Parkinsn
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