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On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 19:33:30 -0500 Dennis Greene <[log in to unmask]> writes: >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. > Dear Marvin (and Dennis) I can only say, anyone who can write the beautiful poetry you have given us belongs with us. PLEASE, Marvin, stay on our list!! Thank you, Ivan Suzman, Portland Maine, 47/10....land of lighthouses today, Feb. 1, our first REAL snowstorm of a strangely snow-silent winter........I