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Abi: I think you're right about awareness of PD spreading and (IMO) lists like this are a big reason why: there is nothing that gives us courage to pursue our course like the success of others that we see reflected here every day! It's unfortunate that publicity too often comes in the form of a death notice. Ed Ginzton was our patient and certainly did battle with his disease over a long period of time. In his professional life, he contributed a great deal to the birth of Silicon Valley and in his personal life he never gave in but fought to the last to live the best life open to him. It's ironic, isn't it, that the industry he helped to build (i.e., computers/internet) now serves as such a good conduit for conversations like this. Carole Cassidy At 10:55 AM 8/16/98 -0700, you wrote: >I was reading an article in the San Jose Merc News Biz section >(Sat Aug 15 paper) titled "Edward L. Ginzton, co-founder of >Varian Associastes, dies at 82" The article mentined that he "died... after >a long battle with Parkinson's disease". > >I do think awareness of PD is spreading- it might not be spreading like >wild fire as we would wish, but I see more and more mentions of PD >in regular newsy stuff. > >Did you see the movie about AIDS "and the band played on?" They talk >about how difficult it was to get people to acknowldge that AIDS existed.. >and look where it is now. > >Hope you are all having a good weekend, > >abi (whose Dad has PD 73/2 yrs) > >