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Janice... How nice that you've found our little corner of Cyberspace! Despite your being an "old hand" at dealing with the daily ins 'n outs of Parkinson's, you'll nonetheless find new information here to be the very latest, the wit and wisdom of this group to be very wise, indeed, with off-the-wall humor to be as silly as it comes, with the laughter joyous no matter what our respective bodies feel like, the compasson boundless, and last-but-not-least, you'll find more women named Barbara here then you ever believed posible! <giggle> Per your comment about wanting to correspond with someone with similar PD experiences, well, m'dear, I found some remarkable similarities between us in your comments... I'm 53, have had PD for about 21 years, my 2 daughters were about same age as your kids when I became the unwilling host to this uninvited "guest," and am hanging in there. Hadda unilateral pallidotomy 2 years ago with excellent results, and mostly have decent, if not great days (tho not a lotta sleep at nite!) <rueful smile>. I still lead an active life for the most part.. tho battle intermittant profound fatigue daily. I might add, the neurosurgeon forgot to implant a spell-checker as I'd requested (grinning) so my spelling hasn't improved at all!! <'nother grin> Should ya care to drop me an email, my Internet address is below. In either case, it's great to see ya here as part oof our group. Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf of Barbara Patterson Sent: Friday, October 25, 1996 4:42 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Letter of introduction (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:35:15 -0400 (EDT) From: GLLJLL <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Letter of introduction Dear Barbara, I am excited and happy to be a new subscriber to this list. I am also very new to the world of the personal computer and am trying to learn through the help of my son via long distance phone calls. I'm sure I will make lots of mistakes but know the end result will be more than worth the effort I put into it. I am a 53 year old housewife who was diagnosed with Parkinson's 20 years ago at age 33. At that time, I had a nine year old son and a six year old daughter and this just didn't seem to be a bit fair to me! After 20 years of coping with this disease, I feel that I am probably one of the luckier ones to still be functioning as well as I am. I would like to correspond with someone who also was quite young when diagnosed and has been coping with the disease for many years. Sincerely, Janice Longn