No, unfortunately, I see people much older than myself who are perfectly healthy, and I have seem people much younger than myself, who also have PD, and they are in worse shape . So, like it or not, deny it if you will--PD takes its toll on each and everyone of us---one way or another--each and everyday!!!! As Ever, Marjorie Moorefield just another librarian with PD At 06:01 PM 3/23/97 -0500, you wrote: >Loosening my aged fingers to bash the keyboard one key >( I hope) at the time and peeping over the parapet at those marvellous >people on the List, with special thanks to The Barb and Brian Collins >to whom we owe so much. > >I would like to put forward the proposition that many of us are suffering >from having been fed too well so that we are living longer and that >OLD AGE is the main cause of our pain and suffering ??? >Our Joints, muscles and nerves have gotten beyond their Sell by Date !! > >Do you not agree ?? > >I would in all humanity exclude those whose distress is obvious >and in need of our sympathy. > >Plantagenet > >