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At 11:46 13/05/96 -0400, Camilla Flintermann wrote: >Re: Clordane--this is powerful stuff! Before it was banned, it was used >to termite-proof a house we were just moving out of. The fumes were >so bad, and I was apparently allergic to them, that I went to our newhouse and >slept there for a feew nights, while Peter (who now has the PD) stayed in >the oldplace, as he was_apparently_not bothered by them. This was in about >1964, and he was Dxed in 1989--but had had many symptoms which now seem to have >been precursors of PD for some 15 yrs. earlier (at least) Ironic, if the >allergy and swollen nose kept me safe, and it should turn out that clordane >was actually some sort of"trigger"for PD....I wonder if someday the >researchers will discover WHY one person gets ONE type of PD, say with >much tremor , while another gets the type with little or no tremor, but >bradykinesia and rigidity(and maybe also cognitive losses)--are there >different triggers/genetic predispositions for different versions??? > Camilla's observations are interesting and thought provoking. My mother and I became very ill one evening and my father called the doctor to come to the house (those were the good old days). When the doctor arrived he yelled, "Coal gas - open the doors and windows". That was about 1956 or so. I was not diagnosed till 1993, but I also had symptoms which now seem to have been precursors of PD for at least 8 years earlier. I was raised in a rural area and drank well water. All of my brothers and sisters were smokers, while I was not. There is no PD in my family. Judith