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Dear Bill, I've always been one to argue every point, to say something in every situation, to make a stupid pun - just to make a noise. I was alaways on the debating team, active in student politics, out there on the protest line. Until the PD. I stammer, I slur, my thoughts get all jumbled in my brain - and before I can finish a sentence I foget what I was trying to say. I take so long to get a point across, that my daughter can't even sit still long enough to listen to what I have to say. In a store or a restaurant, when I try to request something, the assistant will always turn to my companion and ask, What does she want? And my handwriting has shrunk away into non-existence until it has become so illegible that even I canot decipher it. I used to collect penpals as a hobby - that was one of my first PD losses - one of my earliest symptoms was the fact that the physical act of writing became so laborious. And I guess that is why this listserv has become so valuable to me. It has given me back a means to commumicate. And a strange thing is happening. I am beginning to find the old me again, to rediscover who I was pre-PD. Thanks guys! You have succeeded where years of therapy have failed. Yes I guess you could say communication losses are fairly typical; if I exist there must be others out there like me. Hilary Blue (49/16) ______________________________________________________________________ William Isbell wrote: > > This is a message to Craig Mellinger, in response to a communication he > recently posted. > > And for the rest of you who may read this message, are problems in > communication a "usual" part of PD? Currently, my symptoms include > mushmouth, cramped handwriting, lack of volume control, hushed voice, etc. > No tremors, no lockup. Sinemet helps. I'm back to where I was perhaps 1-2 > years ago. > > Bill 64/2mo.