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Marvin, You wrote in part: ---------- > As I have no medical information and am to > new to have experience to pass on----- You may be new to PD but your not new to life. I for one hope you reconsider your decision. As a reminder to you and the list of what we lose should you stop contributing I reproduce -- in full-- your contribution entitled Maintenance. I make no appology for reproducing it in full. Dennis. ++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 47/10 [log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++++++++ Maintenance, by Marvin Giles. How do I live from day to day? How do I deal with an on going illness. You might as well ask a bee how to fly or a bird how it sings. The truth is, sometimes I don't. Some days I wake up and ask how a loving God could do this to me. Some days the world and everyone in it is full of It! On these days my wife and I cry a lot and I say very little. Some days the sun shines, my wife loves me, and nothing else matters. Most days I grit my teeth and make the best of it. For you see, I've been this way all my life and know no other way. Does not everyone lose a bit here, a bit there through life? For me, walking stopped around age ten and I no longer remember how it felt. But I've been down a river on a raft. I've caught a fish I just barely had strength enough to land. I've climbed a hill just barely making it to the top, admired the view, then raced down at a speed that could have broken my neck. I discovered cats. I found my soul mate. I discovered that God did not do this to me. I live. Marvin Giles.