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Hi Janice, I heard from Mary Sheehan last week. She has PD and lives in Almaden valley. MY Dad (who lives in India) has PD and I subscribe to the list for him/my Mom. I live in Santa Clara. We also have Carole Cassidy, who is a Director or soemthing at the Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale. I've heard good things about the place on the list. abi (I live in Santa Clara). > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_014D_01BDE469.21559DC0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Hi everyone, > MY name is Janice Morgan, I was on the list last year. I took = >myself off in Dec. I was happy to know that the Doc. finally had a name = >for what was wrong with me. Then I decided I didn't like the label. I = >did not like reading what was on line. I was going to fight this with = >everything that I had. I needed to start every day fresh. I quit taking = >my meds. I went on vita therapy, I took B-6 for the Sinemet drug. I have = >done very well on it for nine months, I am back on the Sinemet now. I am = >also doing yoga four times a week, plus I go to a massage therapist two = >time a month. The yoga has helped me allot. I am a faller, with tremors = >on my right side. I also have internal shakiness. I intend to keep up = >the yoga until I can't stand. My doc. said that the yoga and massage = >therapy will prolong the wheel chair. I hope that is true. This is hard = >on my husband, he tells me that he does not think about it. I know that = >he is afraid of what the future will bring. I am the strong one in the = >family, and he depends on me allot. The change of rolls is going to be = >hard on us both. > I live in Calif. in the bay area is there anyone out there is the = >bay area also?=20 >The first symptoms cam about five and a half years ago. The tremors came = >last Aug. for my 50 th birthday.=20 > I would like to here from any and all of you. Much love Janice = >Morgan >