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The way we look at it is that first you find the cause(s). the cause will point the way to pursue the cure AND prevention. Meanwhile, researchers on parallel tracks look for improved management with new meds, surgical interventions. All of these efforts cross pollinate one antoher so that it could conceivably be a new drug that suggests a cause rather than vice versa. If the Udall Act is not funded, it will be a blow, no doubt about it, but some research is getting funded now and will continue to do so. The lack of Udall mandated funding will slow us all down, however, and that's frustrating to everyone. Regarding cures, I think of the remarkable advances made--Progress, not absolute cures, but remarkable nevertheless. I won't advise patience, because that's kind of pointless in the face of despair, but do remember that 15 years ago there was no laboratory model for PD to use in research... Now we have new drugs, new surgeries, a great deal of new information and most important there is HOPE. Carole At 03:41 PM 7/10/98 -0400, you wrote: >Yes, Bruce. I think that what you are all doing is enormously constructive. >I know that there have been times in the past two years when I have had to >channel my anger toward something other than a fellow human. I took on a >local newspaper which got me into a bit of trouble, but so what.....I was >right, and they knew it. It felt really good to be really emotionally >committed to a cause I believed in. Don't give a blink to the future. Hang >in there. What you're doing is fantastic. Keep it up. Barb Rager >-----Original Message----- >From: Bruce Anderson <[log in to unmask]> >To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Friday, July 10, 1998 12:08 PM >Subject: WHAT! happens if it doesn't work? > > >>Does anyone out there feel that some of us are making too much of an >>emotional commitment to the funding of this Udall Law, perhaps? I mean all >>of the anger, anguish, frustration, "I'm Mad as Hell...," etc. directed at >>Congress for not funding it, soon no doubt to be followed by jubilation >when >>it does. And then what happens to our individual psyches if.....nothing >>happens? Which is a good possibility. When was the last time anyone found >>a "cure" of a neurological disease? Finding one is also a possibility. >I'm >>in favor of our working our asses off to get funding of Udall & I think >I've >>done my part. I just think we have to be careful of putting to many >>emotional eggs in one basket. They may find a way to prevent future >>victims. But we may have to live with improved management of our >sumptuous. >>Any thoughts? >> > >