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Barbara Mallut wrote: > > Marjorie.....YOU GO, GIRL!!! <smile> > > Barb Mallut, > [log in to unmask] > > ---------- > From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf > of marjorie moorefield > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 1996 3:32 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN > Subject: My first Neurologist > > I remember my first Neurologist,who could not put a name to why > I kept falling on my face, or fanny , just which ever way I leaned. > But he made the mistake of asking me, which symptom that I had, > besides the balance problem, bothered me the most. > I honestly answered him that no longer being able to quilt bothered me the > most! > The man walked out of the room--he thought it was so trivial! Later he would > send me to a team of Neurologists, including the Head of the Neurology > Department > at the Univ. of Miami in Miami, Florida. > They eventually got around to the same question & again I answered honestly-- > thinking to myself--"well here goes 5 Neurologists out the door" BUT > amazingly, > they were not the least bit shocked & answered that I probably would have > trouble > with "finely coordinated acts" the rest of my life. > Boy, they weren't joking. > It was 2.5 years before I could thread a needle--I still can't hand quilt-- > but DH bought me a Swiss made Sewing Machine that has a knee lift, > automatic threader and numerous other thingys which made life much easier. > I won 3rd. place with my machine quilted wallhanging last year--the other two > were all hand made---- > The moral of this story is: > > WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY!!!!! Every PWP in the whole > world KNOWS that. Just don't give up on anything!!!!! Barbara, Amen! It's tooo easy to give up. Once we do that we are licked! Marty