Dear members of the PARKINSN list:
This will be my good-bye to the list. It was a great experience
for me (as a non-PD) to follow your discussions. When I read
your letters every morning, I felt the positive feelings between
you, and it made the days good for me, too. Thank you.
Of course you can always reach me at <[log in to unmask]>
The reason why I joined the list back in July 1994 was an
experiment: we would like to introduce some students to the
educational benefit of computers and Internet. Five students
("our Danish students") joined the list in September 1994 and
stayed on the list for the rest of the year. Their final report was
distributed to the list; the topic was the patient's point of view
(contrasting the traditional pharmaceutical things like how to
make pills, the biological fate of the drugs and so on...). They
also made a poster to the anniversary (December) of The
Royal Danish School of Pharmacy. In my opinion, these
students are now good ambassadors for PD. In the fall of 1995
we may contact you again, or we should take another disease,
like Alzheimer, for a new group of students on the net.
One of the great days was when Jan and Paul Potter visited
Copenhagen and we (the Potter's, "our Danish students", and
yours truly) went out to get a glass of beer together. Thank
you so much! We hope that you like Hawaii. Did you get my
snail mail letter some time ago? A great aloha to both of you!
During the last two months I have tried to get the Danish
Parkinson Association interested in joining you on the
PARKINSN list. I have mailed copies of all your letters to Mrs.
Joyce Schmidt (the chairperson). Unfortunately, they have
decided not to subscribe. My personal feeling is that Joyce is
still a little scared of computers, these dangerous creatures!
On March 1, 1995 there was an interview in one of our largest
national newspapers ("POLITIKEN") on PD and in particular on
the possibilities for transplanting embryonic cells. The
researcher, professor Jens Zimmer, has no results to offer
"here and now", as I understand that the research has a
longer time-scale. I suggested to him that he should subscribe
to your list, and as there are now TWO subscribers from
Denmark, he did! Jens, mange hilsner fra mig, pas godt p
medlemmerne, de fortjener det! Alas, today I will unsubscribe
and then there will again be only one participant from this
country. FYI, the e-mail address of Jens Zimmer is:
<[log in to unmask]>
Yesterday, Marcel Guillot <[log in to unmask]> and his lovely
daughter Sophie (fortunately, she speaks Danish) came to visit
me. He is a member of the French Parkinson Association
(Federation des Groupement de Parkinsoniens), and we had a
nice talk. Have a good time, Marcel, I think you are back in
France by now.
Last but not least: Dear Barbara-the-list-owner. I am very
impressed of all the good work you are doing. You deserve all
the best in the world!
And the best to all of you on the list!
Sincerely,
Erling Sonnich Thomsen,
The Royal Danish School of Pharmacy,
Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, DENMARK
