Hi, Kat! My name is Becky Potts. I'm going into my junior year in
highschool and working on a PD project. In researching PD I found that
many cases are trauma induced, but there are also cases which have no
history of trauma. These "out of the blue" cases have led scientists
(myself included) to believe that there are two ways to get PD: genetically,
or from trauma. My idea is to locate enough case histories with family
histories to do a statistical analyis relating the families and patients and
possibly find a significant link. My grandpa was diagnosed with PD a few
years ago, which would mean that if it can be passed on genetically I could
eventually develop PD!!
I've finally gotten my data sheet figured out, so if I could ask a few
questions it would be a great help. (I need to have your permission to use
this information in my study before I get into the fairs and symposia.) Ok,
here goes:
1. PWP's name
2. PWP's location (city, state/province)
3. PWP's/your E-mail address
4. PWP's occupation
5. PWP's relatives with PD (if any) and the following info on them as
well as PWP
6. gender
7. Onset Age (first symptoms)
8. Diagnosis Age (when doctors diagnosed PD)
9. Age now
10. other illnesses PWPs have had
11. chemicals PWPs have been exposed to
12. other trauma PWPs have endured
Wow! What a list! I hope it's not too hard to track it all down!! I
understand if you don't know all the info. Thanks for helping!!
On another note, you are so lucky to be in Italy!! I went on a tour at
Easter with my Latin class and absolutely loved it! I'm hoping to go to
college on the east coast and major in either Neurology or fashion design
(interesting selection, huh?) and minor in Italian, and later move to Italy.
I'd probably miss home and everyone here, too, but it's so beautiful there!
Well, thank you for helping! Hope the list helps a little!
Becky Potts
-----Original Message-----
From: David Blose <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, August 08, 1998 8:07 AM
Subject: Greetings from Italy
> Greetings from Naples, Italy. I am the wife of a U.S. Army Officer who is
>working over here for NATO. I am 36 and was diagnosed five years ago. I
>was on permax and eldyprl until this week. About ten days ago I had
>numbness all over my body and lost about 30 percent of my mobility in about
>5 days. The doctors were miffed . . . was it PD, something aggravated by
>PD, or something totally unrelated. I went to the major Army hospital in
>Landstuhl, Germany and they decided that it was PD and to start me on
>Sinemet CR. What a trip the first day was, I saw all the details in
>everything I looked at--very strange.
>
>I've been trying to find out whether my problems could have been related
to
>some dental work I had done. In the past several years, I've always had a
>problem with the local anesthesia that the Dentists use. I'm usually
>incapacitated for 12-24 hours--either a reaction to my meds or my PD
>responding. I coincidentially had dental work done a couple of days before
>my rapid down turn and still suspect that may have triggered my problems.
>I've found nothing on the net, nor have any doc's considered that this may
>be a possibility.
>
>I founded a Young PD support group when we were in Hawaii and I miss my
>support group. I enjoy the PD chat line, but here in Italy long use of the
>internet can be expensive. So, I hope that subscribing to this will help
>cure my support group blues.
>
>Nice to meet you all.
>
>Kat
>
