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Reply to message from [log in to unmask] of Mon, 31 Mar Dennis, Thanks. Nancy [A> >Dear listmembers, > >A recent thread on the list has dealt with the reaction of many of >us in the middle stages of PD, to being reminded of the realities >of end stage PD. > >It is a hard thing to do, living with Parkinson's Disease in your life. >Whether PWP or CG we survive by devising techniques by which >we manage the disease and, probably more importantly, ourselves >and our attitudes to PD. It has often been said that no two people >experince PD in exactly the same way. It is equaly true that no two >people will deal wth it in the same way. > >There is one glaring exception to this 'rule'. In my experience those >of us who have learnt to take "one day at a time", seem to be the >most succesful at maintaining some quality in our lives. Very few of >us have this attitude at diagnoses. Most of us seem to enter the >grief cycle, experiencing varying degrees of denial and anger, >before finally accepting our new status. This is the point at which >the great divide occurs. Some of us, overwhelmed by the problems >they are already facing, and shocked and terrified by their vision of >the possible future, become the wounded in this war of attrition in >which we are all unwilling draftees. The rest of us, faced with the >same vision, and accutely concious of how small we are, choose >to concentrate on the battle at hand. The grand stratagies that >will win this war are beyond us as individuals. New drugs, new >surgical techniques, new genetic information - these are what will >win the war against PD. We individual footsoldiers approach the >war piecemeal, one skirmish, one day at a time. > >It is our task to secure our own piece of the battle ground. Many >of us will lose our individual battles before the war is won. We cannot >let that fact distract us. That battle is for another day and requires >a different type of courage. > >Dennis. > >++++++++++++++++++++ >Dennis Greene 47/10 >[log in to unmask] >++++++++++++++++++++ > > --