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"David S. Devor" <[log in to unmask]>wrote: <<I deeply regret to have to announce that my dear Aviva died on Wednesday, May 7, at 56, in her 12th year with Parkinsons. >snip< <<I am giving you the details as a warning. Since she was always pushing herself, working, experimenting and taking chances and falling (often 5-10 times a day), we always assumed that, while in bed, she was completely safe and we could relax. And so, as it happened, no one was around to help her when she was choking. In spite of the advanced stage of her condition, Aviva, an architect and designer of considerable accomplishment and reputation, was learning a new, sophisticated, software package for drafting in 3 dimensions. She had a reputation for thinking always of others. Her smile, for all who encountered her, was her trademark. Some of you will recall the page one, Wall Street Journal article connected with Aviva's bilateral pallidotomy and the national ABC, "Prime Time Live," TV broadcast where Aviva appeared briefly the day she underwent the procedure. To the end, her pallidotomy rid her of almost all freezing and much dyskinesia. Her drug holiday of some 3 months ago was also holding nicely. I trust you will understand if, soon, I take my leave from the list. Broken hearted, David>>> David, your loss is great. our loss is lesser but real. My sympathy may be a slight help to you at this time. I hope that it is. I appreciate your telling us that which you have related. Wisdom is possible with enough knowledge. Before you take leave from the list, please accept the sympathy from your fellow carers and sufferers. I care about my self, my fellow PWPs, their family and friends, all the participants of the listserv, and humanity as a whole (as I think you do also in your way of seeking to be pro-active to the future.) Perhaps TIME magazine will honor Aviva and her struggle as well as yours with a eulogy that we live only in the present ... and only to the extent that we give our care to self and those we choose to love ... id est, to care and help. -- ron 1936, dz PD 1984 Ridgecrest, California Ronald F. Vetter <[log in to unmask]> http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter