Hooray for Wendy!! It's late and I don't have time to say all I know to say right now. BUT YOU ARE RIGHT! And I just wanted to give you a pat on the back where everyone can see it. If all of us really WOULD get on the band wagon and do exactly as you say................WOW, More is better sometimes.... {{{{{{{{{a squeeze from me}}}}}}}}}}}}} Sharon Starr -----Original Message----- From: Tebay, Wendy M <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Happy Endings survey comment >To: Wendy From: Wendy > >That's pretty funny. Don't encounter that too often. > >I would venture to say that your mom probably had pd symptoms before she >was actually diagnosed. I know I did, especially now that I understand the >disease more. One of the signs was that my softball throwing was going >downhill, and until someone else commented on it to me, I wasn't sure if I >was imagining it or not. It definitely sneaks up on ya slowly. Another >clue, looking back, came when I was on a ski trip with a bunch of people. >We were all sitting around at this table, playing a drinking game (sshhh! >don't tell anyone!), which involved, at certain times, quickly tapping one's >hand twice, right in succession. When everyone started yelling at me that I >was tapping too softly and that they couldn't tell whether I had tapped once >or twice, I told them all that they had had too much to drink, that I had >obviously tapped twice. Drunk they may have been, but I now know they were >right, as quick, repetetive movements have become harder and harder for me. >It's funny how one begins to see the subtle changes affecting otherwise >normal activities (not that playing drinking games was a "normal" >activity!). > >As far as healings, I guess in a (not-so?) subtle way, I'm trying to shape >both mine and everyone else's reality here by through repeated exposure to >the idea of pd healings. Like psychologists say about learning, you don't >really absorb new info completely until you've seen/heard it at least seven >times. I think that if we all hear about it enough, even tho' we don't >believe it at first,, with repeated exposure, it kinda becomes a >"background" reality, which hopefully eventually moves to the foreground, >and then out of our imaginations, out into the "real" world. I truly >believe that if enough of us begin to believe in the possibility, we'll >eventually reach some critical mass where belief actually becomes reality, >and then things will really begin happening. > >It's kinda like years ago, when the book Megatrends was written. In it the >author brought up the concepts (possibilities) which outlined where he saw >society and technology going. (concepts which are today represented by the >Internet, and the ability to do commerce via it; what they call "smart" >homes, where a computer basically runs everything electrical; the >environmental movement, which is changing the way business is done; etc.) I >don't know if all of these examples are definitely out of that book, I >haven't actually read it myself, altho' I've heard other people's summaries. >Anyway, ya'll get the idea. Back then, no one could conceptualize the >Internet, computers, etc., and the effect they'd have on our lives. But the >seeds of the ideas had been planted, which then led to other people >exploring the ideas further, and so on and so on, which all eventually led >to their real invention and development. That's where I can see this >healing stuff going if we don't let the idea die. > >Ya know, if we're gonna put so much time and effort into the Udall Bill and >securing funding, we've got to do it with the belief that a cure is >imminent, but not get depressed when it doesn't come immediately. I think >politicians would respond even more positively if we came at them from a >position of belief. If we don't really believe in a cure (at least in our >lifetimes), then we push that date out further. By collectively believing >in this cure, we then present ourselves from a place of greater power. You >have to be ready to be healed, as well, whenever that times comes. >Irregardless of the drugs and surgeries that are developed with this money, >they can't heal you if you still cling to the idea that this disease is >fatal and relentlessly progressive. > >Anyway Wendy, I'm not criticizing you in at all. Nor am I referring to >"you" necessarily when I say "you". It's a more general term. I just get >to rambling sometimes. > >Hope that you and your mom, and all of us, can later become subscribers to >the as yet to be formed email list called "PD survivors." I'll sign up! > >Wendy Tebay >