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At 11:12 AM 1/16/98 -0500, Gregory Leeman wrote: >Dear List: >A sad note in today's Portland Press Herald, as the obituaries had Adeline Fleischer listed. After being diagnosed with PD in 1974 she tried to garner interest for a local support group. Eventually, with the help of her daughter, Jeri Brem she succeeded in holding monthly meetings. "She tried everything to prolong her life in a positive way,'' said her daughter. "We always had a large turnout." > >I did not know Mrs. Fleischer personally, but as a fellow PD sufferer, I feel saddened when a person who share this affliction passes. It is a Parkisonian's unique struggle with a disease that can be so humbling and humiliating. We alone truly know what kind of inner strength it takes to battle the neverending myriad of symptoms. Knowing there are others out there that we can share our common or unique experiences with has a calming influence on me. The trevails we face surely can be endured if we continue our dialogue of shared experiences with just the right amount of self-deprication and humor. Parkinson's Disease surely is the enemy, but, I am honored to be a part of the list. >Best Regards, >Greg Leeman [log in to unmask] greg i feel the same as you it is hard to loose a pd friend. i used to make cards and send them out. got to be to hard for me to do it so gave it don I.Y.Q. don&vivian > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Dear List:</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>A sad note in today's Portland Press Herald, as >the obituaries had Adeline Fleischer listed. After being diagnosed with PD >in 1974 she tried to garner interest for a local support group. >Eventually, with the help of her daughter, Jeri Brem she succeeded in holding >monthly meetings. "She tried everything to prolong her life in a >positive way,'' said her daughter. "We always had a large >turnout."</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I did not know Mrs. Fleischer personally, but as >a fellow PD sufferer, I feel saddened when a person who share this affliction >passes. It is a Parkisonian's unique struggle with a disease that can be >so humbling and humiliating. We alone truly know what kind of inner >strength it takes to battle the neverending myriad of symptoms. Knowing >there are others out there that we can share our common or unique experiences >with has a calming influence on me. The trevails we face surely can be >endured if we continue our dialogue of shared experiences with just the right >amount of self-deprication and humor. Parkinson's Disease surely is the >enemy, but,</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2> I am honored to be a part of the >list. </FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Best Regards,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Greg Leeman <A >href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]</A></FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> >