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> > >1. How did you first learn about the Parkinsn List? Around 1994, has email on a Unix account, saw Parkinson's List on a List of Lists. > >2. When did you first join the Parkinsn List? 1994 >3. What reason(s) did you have for joining the Parkinsn List? I was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1989 at 42 years of age and was frustrated by the dearth of information on the disease. The school library where I work only had obsolete information in an article in the Family Medical Encyclopedia showing an elderly, horribly bent lady with a claw-like hand and grimly described Parkinson's Disease as one having an unrelenting neurodegenerative progression to total disability. Not being prepared to accept my inevitable future transformation into the image of the old woman staring at me from the book, I set out in search of more and hopefully positive information on the treatment of the disease. The list has certainly provided me with a wealth of information on all aspects and manifestations of the disease as well as conventional and alternative methods of treatment and positive research efforts. I shared this information with the Parkinson's Association of Victoria (Australia) via a regular newsletter as well as the Young Onset Support Group I belong to. I've especially enjoyed reading the personal, emotional expressions of the Parkinson's experience by the list members, and like Ron Vetter, I was intensely affected by the deaths of Alan Bonander and Aviva Davor whom I got to know through the list. Though I feel guilty that I don't often contribute myself to the list and tend to be more of a lurker, I read many of the messages every day and feel that it and the members are an important part of my life. Celia Jones