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Maryhelen Good luck with 97! We sure hope that it is a better year! I am back with Dr. Pfeiffer although it means traveling 14 hours to a neuro appointment! My family MD (who has been my main source of support) moved to Bangladesh to be a full time medical missionary....a life long dream of his and his wife. Fortunately, I chose to stay with his senior partner in the practice......who it turns out was a medical school classmate of Dr. P and he also has 3 uncles with PD and lives in somewhat of a dread that it is hereditary in his family and looks for symptoms in himself!!! Couldn 't ask for more understanding from him at this point!! I am preparing to sell our home here, and move to a one level... we actually have about 5000 sq ft in this counting the basement which is all of my craft/sewing/packrat stuff. Spent most of the fall sorting and will have the garage sale of the century on the first springtime Saturday! Amazing what we can do without after hording it for a century and a half!!! I love to go to estate sales and search for the "bargains" that no one else wants and realize now that I will never use! Don is planning to resign his administrative duties at the UN-L and focus wholly on teaching and research.........he is not overjoyed about this but sees it as the common sense thing to do.............I think in 5 years he will be delighted he made the decision.........but for now it is hard to think about giving up a job that has been 7 days a week/18 hours/day for the past 6 years. (Workaholic to the core!). We will take a six month sabbatical probably in Palo Alto, CA...to be near the older two children and to enable Don to refocus on research and get some notes together to teach some undergraduate classes for the first time in many years. Our daughter (age 30) went to the MD thinking that she was pregnant with much wanted baby #2 (Wyatt is 20 months old) and instead found out that she has cervical cancer and for the next four years "baby #2" should be out of the question. Along with the shock of diagnosis, 30th birthday and disappointment she could use family around for a while next year.........we will probably go out in June or Sept.......depends on when the house sells a bit. I look forward to some facetoface interchange with the Northern CA group for a few months. Glad to see the "list" finally out of the bickering stage for a while! Welcome to a new beginning for a new year! Rita