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I'm feeling uncharacteristically humble. I've just come home from our Ladies Luncheon Support Group meeting. When the organiser informed me last night that the guest speaker would be someone from NIH, I thought, Aha, here is my chance . I guess in some strange way I was wanting to punish this unknown person because the Udall Bill was not going exactly as planned. I Don't know what I was thinking - I guess that is one for the psychologsts... But I knew I was going to be ready to GET her. I don't know when I have been more glad to have been wrong about something. This charming, soft-spoken well-informed research worker, a 25 year veteran of Parkinson's Research at NIH, who probably felt even more strongly than I did how unfair the distribution of funds can be (but she didnt say) - this charming lady gave a presentation that covered the whole gamut of PD. She was sincere, polite, and extremly knowledgeable. I am humbled and contrite. Of course the workers are not to blame for the situation - they want a cure just as much as we do. And I have to thank Marge Gillespie for reminding me of that, and for being able to give me , and the other ladies, so much information about the present status of PD research, and thank you for taking the time to answer my personal questions..... But I still plan to go to t he Public meeting on the 23rd! Hilary Blue