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Once again, Barb, you have said it better than probably most people could. I highly agree with you that Dale owes no one an apology. I personally do not believe that Dale was playing the role of the dr "offering a patient medicine if only they can solve the 3 riddles". I feel that he was just trying to make it interesting. What is wrong with that? Laurie >Dale.... > >SMACK!!!!! <---- Barb whomps the hapless Dale upside his head) Don't you EVER, >EVER apologize to anyone, anywhere for being YOU and for CARING! >(rubbing smarting fingers) <he's got a hard head> (grin) > >The original message that started this was written out of ignorance but with >good intentions. Neither of you are to blame for any great tragedy, and >CERTAINLY no apologies should be expected or given by you. > >So take the damnable apology BACK, ya hear? You're real good people, Dale! > >(Barb returns to cranking out reply emails to the 300+ messages that were >dumped into her email box after MSN repaired it's downed server) <groan> > >Barb Mallut >[log in to unmask] > >---------- >From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf >of Dale Severance join list >Sent: Sunday, December 15, 1996 9:21 PM >To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN >Subject: Enough is Enough by Dale Severance > > Enough is Enough > > >About eight weeks ago I joined this list and have enjoyed all the comments, >jokes, serious discussions and the efforts by the group to embrace all who >are hurting with this disease or have a friend, relative or parent encumbered >with this affliction. > >At first the members spent two weeks discussing the registration issue in >Nebraska. The topic then moved to the Pope and speculation of whether God's >Messenger had been the beneficiary of our blessing also. At that time more >than one person published a joke at the expense of the Pope without a >complainant of irreverence. > >>From there we went to Jokes and Euthanasia and during this period we poked >fun at our selves and the friendships formed and even selected a Parkie of >the year. > >Several days ago at 3 am I finished reading all my mail and went to IRC Chat >Channel to talk to the old standbys but Werpuppy, motherhen and Homeboy the >sentinels at the gate were not stationed at their posts. > >With no one to talk to and a Northeastern storm battering on my windows I >decided that I needed to create and activity to get through the day. We had >just had a challenge to name the title and author of the poem Invictius and I >though I could spice up the day for the group and play too. I went to the >library and took out some inspirational books.....used handicapped license >plates for the first time.....and it had too many quotations to put in a >message. I thus thought of the $100.00 challenge which was meant as a fun >task for the day. Little did I know that it would cause hard feelings, mark >me as insensitive to our illness, and stone me from the group. > >So in response too all who were offended by the challenge (which was clearly >labeled in the subject box) I apologize not for what I said or did but for >the lack of perception to anticipate that I would hurt feeling by what I said >But I too have a blessing, of the kind visited on the Pope, as he declared to >the world his contraction of Parkinson's Disease. My blessing is that on >Thursday this week I finally had to give notice to my partners that I could >not continue to work and would have to retire. The blessing is that I can now >work full time on PD causes. I have a multitude of ideas but not enough time >to implementing them. Now I will have more time. > >If you would like to see my latest project use your web browser and go to >http://members.aol.com/dales99846/PAN.html And while you are there take >some >time to fill out the form. I called for help to build a data base and >attach it to the web page so that the submit key would upload (or is it >download) the information into the data base without the necessity of >individually typing all the information by hand. While I had a few offers of >help, and even contacted the engineer's at prodigy to help, nothing concrete > developed, so I bought microsoft access data base and a manual and started >to read. From the directions I have been able to create the base and send the >information at the press of the submit key to the data base. As I stumbled >along the way, technical support was a big help at $ 30.00 per call. I have >just one problem unresolved, when the information comes in to the data base >it arrives in an up and down column instead of spreading across the page >inserting information in the proper boxes. Even kicking the desk is not >helping at this point. I've bribed a local college student (my daughter's boy >friend) to look at the problem tomorrow. > >I'm working my way through the New Jersey support group list furnished by the >Parkinson's Disease Foundation. I have contacted eleven support group leaders >who are willing to help build the communication web. I have followed up the >telephone call with a letter and mailed questionnaires to be completed and >returned to bring into the fold those without email facilities. >One by one I am going to contact or some volunteers will contact every >support group in the USA to build the best communication web for PAN for the >benefit of the PD community. I do not mean to ignore non us residents but I >have not figured out how to deal abroad with this issue. My support group >mentor, Tony Fazio, is about to work the State of New York Support >Groups.....Hello anybody want to work their State I will send you forms to >get you started with the form letters. > >So you see I take my condition and yours seriously and any thing I might say >of a frivolous or insensitive nature is a slip of the tongue or an effort to >engage in a little frivolity to lighten the day for us all. > >So enough is enough the $100.00 challenge is canceled and my check to PAN for >$100.00 is on its way to them. The answers to the contest are Mother >Theresa, John Kennedy and Henry Ford. > >As I close this long winded epilogue, I leave you with a message for the day: > >"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." Helen >Keller > >Dale Severance > >