This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BDBA12.072E62A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BDBA12.072E62A0 Content-Type: text/plain; name="Hello fellow Parkie.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Hello fellow Parkie.txt" Hello fellow Parkie's I am new to the list. My name is Bernard Shaw. = Sorry to disappoint you=20 all but I am not the famous GBS or the newscaster.I am a Parkie that = likes to write verse. You=20 might ask what am I doing on a PD list.. I was diagnosed some fifteen = years ago as having PD=20 but the first symptoms that I remember was when I was 25 years old.. = Shaking hands, nervous=20 twitching occasionally dropping something because my hands, especially = the left, had no=20 strength for a couple of seconds. I was walking up a hill and my legs = started to run away with=20 me.. I was lucky I managed to grab a lamp post for support and to stop = me falling.. Like most=20 Parkies that I have spoken to one ignores these symptoms. After all we = have a life to lead. I=20 ignored them! I carried on with my life. Around my fiftieth birthday I = developed back aches. My=20 hands began to shake. I had little or no strength not even to screw a = screw into a piece of=20 machinery. Saliva formed in my mouth I could not swallow properly. I = started to dribble as I=20 probably did as a child. My face became like a mask .I was often asked. = "What are you staring=20 at," I was not staring of course I was developing into a Parkie. I did = not go to seek medical help=20 until the terrible night mares started. I would wake in the night = screaming at the top of my voice;=20 punching holes in the air. My poor wife, ( My best pal for the last 43 = years.) made me go to see=20 our local Physician. Here I was given sleeping pills and tablets for my = back. The symptoms got=20 worse. My wife then took me to a specialist. This man told me straight = to my face, That I had=20 Parkinson Syndrome.. I was taken aback. Parkinson syndrome? What on = earth was that.. I was=20 given a letter and sent to our local Neurological and Psychiatric = clinic. Here I was kept for=20 observation and started off on Dopamine . I had other pills to take. I = was depressive, continuous=20 back ache. I wound up taking twenty one tablets in the course of a day. = I was discharged after=20 three weeks .On arriving home I threw all of my tablets except the = Dopamine and the Rohypnol,=20 and the Cinnebene away. In the last twelve to fifteen years I have been = in the clinic at least=20 twelve times.. I am still a great optimist and I firmly believe that we = will soon have a remedy for=20 all the Parkies. I greet especially those wonderful people that have = taken care of me and those=20 that have helped you other Parkies. Our Wives, Husbands, Families .yes = even the neighbours, =20 not to mention the hospital staff where ever they are. All are in my = prayers ,Parkies helpers=20 families and Doctor Parkinson, The man that took the trouble to diagnose = and write the history=20 of this PD. I have spouted on, sorry that it is so long this epistle = that was intended to be a very=20 short note.. Bern. God Bless you all. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BDBA12.072E62A0--