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I want to thank all the members in this group. I didn't realize how important the daily mail is to me until I went away on a trip for 5 days and returned to find 88 messages (most from this group). Thanks to those of you who have called, sent packages of goodies my way, traded photographs (it's refreshing to put a face with a voice in cyberspace), and the one person in this network who even came to "play in the redwoods with me". But, most of all, I want to thank this group for allowing me at times to poke irreverently at PD and all of its related occurrences. I told someone about the network and showed them some of the things I posted. After explaining the medical terms, they asked me, "How do the people respond to these parodies you create?". I was uncertain how to respond. With 900+ members, it seems like only 40-50 post with any sort of regularity and of those maybe 10-12 give me positive feedback about my posts. As you probably know, my contributions swing between the wholly irreverent observations to the gut-wrenching testimonials. Living alone and retired at age 37 with PD and patiently (?) awaiting a pallidotomy in mid-1996 is sometimes a horrible experience and it helps me to get things out; talking in cyberspace to others with PD pr people who are PD caregivers has been the best thing to happen in a long time. So, again, to all of you lurking or actively posting in whatever country you live in , thanks. And thanks most of all to Barbara Patterson, without whom all of this would not be possible! -Your fellow cyberspace PDer David R. Boots 37, diagnosed 5 and 1/2 yrs "mopping out my brains for the world" (obscure David Bowie reference)