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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 16:01:50 EST From: [log in to unmask] To: Barbara <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Parkinson's listserve Barbara, thanks for your message and all the helpful information on the list. I am a librarian at the University of Kentucky, and my mother was diagnosed as having Parkinson's Disease a few years ago. She is doing quite well physically, but is having a rough time emotionally, and I am interested in both medical news and support/coping strategies. Her neurologist, while I think competent medically, seems unable to deal with the emotional ramification s or offer any help in that regard. (When my mom mentioned a support group as a possibility, he said "Oh, a lot of the people would be in worse shape than you, and it would just be depressing.") Turns out, in her small community there isn't a support group, anyway. I hope to use info. gleaned from this list to help her in any way possible. Mary Vass