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Hi Bill and all, Kathleen Cochran here, dx 1997, listserv participant in varying degrees of activity/inactivity since then. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving Day! Bill, I share your diminished manual dexterity...TG for voice recognition software! I do drive, but I no longer drive at night nor in wretched weather, which we here in downstate NY have been experiencing more and more. Recently I've been taking greater advantage of the conferencing capabilities of Skype and ooVoo, and I'm very interested in your virtual support group. Robert, I'm intrigued by the flowering of your creative capacities in tandem with PD. This seems to happen to a lot of PwP. Jolted by the onset of PD and the shock of 9/11, I began writing poetry in 2001 and haven't stopped. I'm also working on a novel and looking to revive my blog, which has been lying dormant for a couple of years. If anyone would like to read my one and only poem directly about PD, it is in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, at this address: http://yjhm.yale.edu/poetry/kcochran20101030a.htm I'm in awe of PwP who also contend with cancer and other life-threatening, enormously demanding conditions. I have been fortunate enough thus far to have "only" PD and I have to make a conscious effort to reject the magical, "one dread disease per customer" delusion that gets in the way of my attending to overall health. Kathleen On 23 November 2011 00:39, William Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello! > > My name is William Smith. Actually I go by Bill. And yes William Smith is > my real name although sometimes I tell people my alias my real name being > John Doe. > > I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2005 while undergoing > chemotherapy for cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New > York City. I have been on disability since May 2006. My biggest problem > with Parkinson's this finger dexterity, or should I say lack of it. I also > help desk operator/technical support specialist. I was unable to type and > repair equipment as I should. > > I now use voice recognition software, which is not perfect, but much > better than my trying to type I and. I live in rural upstate New York now. > The nearest support group is about 10 miles away. Unfortunately I don't > drive, and the meetings are always early afternoon on a weekday. Getting > the right is difficult. > > So I've explored online support groups. There's several other pretty good. > Some of their social. Then there's listserv such as this one. All have > their place. For me though it all ends up with the problems typing. I just > can't keep up. So I decided to try something different. I'm sure I'm not > unique in this. But I haven't seen this yet. > > I am starting an online support group that features group video chat Up to > 20 members can see and hear each other on their screenIf more than 20, the > overflow can watch and listen.. There's no software to set up all you need > is a microphone and speakers and a WebCam. As far as the information > available it was for group, it's minimal right now. > > > Members will have the opportunity to recommend what they think should be > in the library. Meetings can be scheduled whenever is convenient for the > members be at once a week once a month daytime and nighttime. > > I have website It's called Binghamton Past. It's a memory Lane type of > site for people from Binghamton New York my hometown. I created a subgroup > within that site's called PDSGBP Parkinson's Disease Support Group at > Binghamton Past. There's no cost there's no need to be from Binghamton is > no requirement of any kind. I'd like to invite anybody on this list to sign > on and be a pioneer with me. Should you decide to do so the only > information requested is your email, name your gender ,location the rest of > the questions are optiona would like here is the web address: > > http://binghamtonpast .com > > Complete the registration process and once you are in, seni me a message > saying you want to join PD SG BP. I will then send you a link to get you > started and will take it from there. Again there's no cost and no > obligation and again my purpose is trying to have a support group where I > don't have to type. By the way, I read in the charter of this group that > being in sight unseen can be a plus and I agree. In this case I have a need > to not havee to type so that I think there's room for both types of support > I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you for your time.== > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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