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Hi Bob, Stefan, Elizabeth, Art and Barb M.,

  Now that I realize we're dead if we survive PD more than 10 years, my
trip to Washington has taken on a whole new dimension ....... The
Adventures of a Parkinsghost in the Great Beyond.....

  I mean, depending on how you count it, I'm in either my 11th or 12th
year of PD. So I must be  a year or two post-Parkinson's.

  Does this mean I have only a ghost of chance of being seen by Hilary or
Bill while in Washington?

  Maybe  I can slip into the Appropriations Committee Office
sight-unseen, and find out the real truth about the Udall funding.

  So when you're finally a bona-fide Parkinsghost, what should you say
when Senator Susan Collins' scheduler asks you if you'd like to appear
for a photograph?

  Are we Parkinsghosts going to stage Invisibility gatherings?

  What should I say to MaryHelen Davila when she says, "See you in
Washington!"?

  Does all this mean I should ask Jim Cordy a bit more about the best way
to approach Senator Arlen Specter?



  Ivan Suzman  :-))
  48/11 / 2nd year of Parkinsghosting






I guess I'm somewhere into my second year of being POST-Parkinsonian!!!




^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS  FROM^^^^^^^^^^
Ivan Suzman      48/11                 [log in to unmask]
Portland, Maine   land of lighthouses         deg. F
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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:37:16 -0700 robert l dolezal
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>NIH  says that 50,000 people in the United States  are diagnosed with
>PD
>each year.   Of all the Parkinson's statistics tossed around, this
>should
>be the easiest to come up with, and most accurate (although it still
>may
>not be REALLY  accurate.)  But, assuming this is true,  and if there
>are
>500,000 with the disease in the country, and that number remains
>relatively
>stable, year after year, doesn't this mean that each year 50,000 with
>the
>disease must die?  (50,000 x 10 = 500,000, so if 500,000 is stable
>then
>...)
>
>Doesn't that, in turn, mean that average lifespan after diagnosis of
>PD is
>a mere 10 years?   And, if average age at diagnosis is 57,  one-half
>of the
>annual diagnosis is younger than 57.
>
>So, if  50,000 of us  die off each year, then 10% of the PD population
>goes
>to the great beyond each year.  Assuming that those diagnosed at a
>younger
>age (under 57)  survive longer, doesn't this  mean  that those of us
>OVER
>57 must be passing on at a rate even faster than 10%?
>
>If this is true, wouldn't it  mean that I am already dead?
>
>
>Bob 62 and 23/24ths/6
>