Hello to all! I've lurked for some time, but you good people have pricked my conscience! I realize the need PWP have is so great that none of us can not want to help in some small way. When I see how the doctors tell us so little and people don't even know about support groups, I see how we must do what we can to educate them. I feel inadequate myself because I get depressed about the individuality of the disease. What works for one is some else's snafu! Also the medicene works sometimes and there are times it doesn't! Do new people know this? Do new people know how food affects them? My neuro didn't tell me much of anything nine years ago! I found most of my knowledge came from support group and for the last year from this listserv! I didn't know for sometime that protein was so detrimental to medication. Boy ,did I learn! My typing is not too good, but I will try to do more for the group. One thing that bugs me is the way the news snatches up small hopes and magnifies them and the general public thinks the cure is here for tomorrow! No one realizes the technicalities it takes and the red tape in each little bit of research. Enough ---By the way, where is Ivan? Ruth Clark 66/9