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hi cyber-dad-don you wrote: >about 15 minutes ago i had a long distance >phone call about my blind friend >i said about a week ago that he was here for a fish fry. >no one knew of it outside >vivian & i said we could talk and not have pity for each other. >i do wish i had gone to some cancer support groups >i don't know what to say, as he is not expected to live >i'll just put it on a list to get it off my mind >and maybe i'll think of what to say when he passes on. >i am so happy that i've only got pd. >i wonder what is going through his mind now... the pain... >so i will close >i've got to think >I.Y.Q. >don & vivian when i was diagnosed with pd i felt like i had been given a 'wake-up call' in my ignorance about pd i jumped to some incorrect conclusions about what my 'suddenly, apparently limited, future' held [as if i, or anyone else, could ever foretell the future!] i had been 'frittering' my life away without examining it or my priorities very closely that is one of the reasons i consider the diagnosis of pd a gift i have been learning not to take anything for granted and am still learning that lesson we are all humans; willingly or reluctantly, we all face the inevitable end of our lives as we know them here none of us are 'expected to live' forever the only difference between you and me and your friend is that he has been given an anticipated departure time so it may seem that by comparison we have 'more' than he does but we don't the past is gone the future never arrives all i truly 'have' is today and now and how i spend this gift is up to me and no one else i cannot presume to suggest to you what to say to your friend, but if i were in your shoes, i probably would want to share as much [pain or joy] as possible while it is still possible i wouldn't be surprised if the friend felt the same way with love from your cyber- sis janet paterson 50-9 / sinemet-selegiline-prozac almonte-ontario-canada / [log in to unmask]