Ivan: I've been mulling over in my mind about responding to your message, and here Camilla came along and said it all! How'd SHE know what I'VE been thinking, anyway?!? <grin> Anyway, Ivan... you're amongst friends here, and don't you be forgetting that, ya hear? <smile> Even tho most of us wouldn't recognize each other if we ran head-on into each other, we STILL are warm and caring friends! DO tap into the collective strength of this buncha friends, Ivan. We all do at one time or another, and we all benefit from it. Barb Mallut, [log in to unmask] ---------- From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf of Camilla Flintermann Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 1996 7:37 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: I am considering pallidotomy/NADH Dear Ivan--I hope you will get some helpful suggestions from other PWPs on the list about the medical questions you have raised. It must be very hard to be living with PD and have no PD specialist to confer with. I'm glad to know you are not completely alone, and also appreciate your trust in all of us which enabled you to "come out of the closet" here. Just from what we know about statistics, we can be sure that there are many PWPs who share your orientation, and to feel unable to reveal this to others with whom they have PD in common must be especially hard! Take care, and keep on working on the Udall bill! Camilla Flintermann,CG for Peter,78/7 Oxford,OH [log in to unmask]