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Barb,M'dear, would you mind repeating that???, ( grinning and ducking for my life) . You see how your postings have effected me? I'm even talking (writing) like you. Keep it going, Babes, most fun. I agree, internal stuff is the pits because no one can see what is happening. They really could if they saw my handwriting! Love ya Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Mallut <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: 4. ledna 1998 13:37 Subject: Re: internal tremors >Emily.... > >Errr.... MY washing machine is in the garage on concrete, and truthfully, I >don't hang 'round in the garage watching it go thru the spin cycle in order to >look for comparisons! <grinning> > >I CAN tell ya that living in a townhouse with neighbors within a few feet on >both sides HAS created a single annual event that DOES have an effect upon my >PD and it DOES strongly resemble internal tremor. This is a terrible time >physically for me because I can COUNT on this happening as long as I continue >to live in my townhouse. > >In the summer and autumn when I'm running my unit's 20 year old 3 ton forced >air conditioner and one particular next door neighbor's running her 4 year old >3 ton air conditioner, if HER air conditioning unit's running alone ,it >vibrates at SUCH a swift rate that I can FEEL that vibration thru the concrete >foundation of the building. My skin seems to crawl and I feel that >Parkinson-y "inner tremor" in my arms and chest wall to the point I want to >scream!!! > >To counter-act HER air unit's aggravating MY physical condition, I end up >being forced to run MY air conditioner simultaneously (significantly raising >my monthly electrical bill!). My air unit has a slower vibration that >generates a more ponderous (for lack of a better word), "feeling" thru the >concrete foundation, thus causing no aggravation of my PD symptoms. > >Due to the 5 months of 100 + degrees weather in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley, my >neighbor runs HER air conditioner 24 hours a day to MY running mine maybe 6 or >7 hours daily - PRIOR to her getting that new air conditioner. > >NOW - if I'm home when my neighbor's running HER air conditioner, I run MY air >conditioner to counteract the vibrations caused by her unit (and bless her, >she's a dear lady, a good neighbor, and hasn't a clue about any of this). I >called a couple of air conditioner service companies to see if there was any >way to adjust or calibrate my neighbor's air unit to a different vibration >(and I have NO idea how these things work!) and was told "Hahahaha. NO!!" > >Sooooo... in addition to my own totally PD-generated "inner tremor," I also >have a 5-month-a-year "air-conditioner-generated-inner-tremor." (shrugging and >sighing) DO you realize that we - your hubby Jim 'n I - have created a whole >NEW category of PD symptoms? "Household-machinery-like-or-caused internal >tremor!" <rueful grin> > >Barb Mallut >[log in to unmask] > >---------- >From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of jim and emily jackson >Sent: Friday, January 02, 1998 8:36 PM >To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN >Subject: internal tremors > >Barb M., Sonia, and others: My husband Jim describes a feeling "kind of >like if you're in a house with a wood floor, and the washing machine is >spinning and shaking the floor." (We live atop a concrete slab, and no >earthquakes here in North Texas! The floor is NOT moving.) Is this >anything like what you all experience as internal tremors? > > >[log in to unmask] >