Zenia... Without meaning to disparage your work or your request for women with PD to respond to you, please consider my response to be directed more to the PD-List members than to you alone. In reading Zenia's post, I was confronted with something I hadn't consciously thought of before. When it comes to Parkinson's, I don't think of us as gender-specific Parkies, but ALL of us as persons with Parkinson's. I recognize there are some natural and normal differences between the male and female (and I love those differences!) <smile> but when it comes to this steeeenkin' disease, I see us all in the same boat together, paddling just as hard and as fast as we can to reach the safety of the shore - a shore which LOOKS so very close, but seems to remain elusively in the distance, no matter how hard we paddle. Barb Mallut (paddling furiously away) [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Zenia Chavez Sent: Sunday, October 26, 1997 11:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Thesis on Women and PD My name is Zenia Chavez. I was diagnosed with PD two years ago. At that time I was just beginning a masters program at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. At first I did my best to ignore the illness but by the time thesis came around I was pretty much disabled. So, I saw this as an opportunity to research and reach out to other women with PD. I am looking to interview women with PD. What I need to cover are questions regarding your experiences and feelings as a women with PD. Would you be willing to participate? If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please respond at [log in to unmask]