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Hi Wendy: I don't know about you, but if I was cured this would be the first place I would come. To share my joy and happiness to the people who have carried me the most. Listen to me wine, and sob, and rant & rave, to spill the venomous anger from me would most definitely come here. I know that most of the people here would also, post here to let us all share in the moment, that moment of pure delight. We all share a common goal, research, cures. You would be a few watts short of a real lightbulb if you think we just sit and wait for the rest of what Parkinson's has to deliver. I may get down, from the mess I'm in but I haven't laid down and died yet. I have a few things left I want to do. Go in a glider plane again in Hawaii while the whales are below playing and mating. I want to drive again the car I choose, right Ken! I want to have a week of on days in a row, I want to stop seeing the people who live with me now. I don't want to have them talking to me anymore. I want to trim my dogs and not have it take 3 days. Plus have someone help me when I used to do this alone. I have a list of things, things that were and are still important to me. But until the day that it flashes over the computer screen or the TV screen "Cure found for a few diseases including Parkinson's." I am waiting patiently. As for God and Testimony, I was raised Catholic might say beaten into me. I now know that it was not my Higher Power doing that it was the untrained Priest and nuns, who should have never been put into a teaching situation with children. So, at this point you mention religion I run the other way. Not healed anyway I believe in something Great Spirit, Budda, Jehovah, God, my Higher Power as I choose to mention, this is not a God given disease in my mind. None of them are. Man/woman created this mess, power of choice was given to us. Unless we work together and repair the world and us all will be lost. But my PD is not a punishment from God and if I were cured tomorrow it would be a combination of things. One of which would be my higher power. I don't need to sit here and say that the doctors had no place in this, that I had no place in this, because I did. And all of my friends here had a part in it. They help my attitude, they keep me up when I start down, they give me suggestions and always inquire when I'm not around. I have heard that Religion is for people who fear going to hell, and Spirituality is for people who have already been there. I hope you find what your looking for Wendy. But I have found my joy here and in my heart. TTFN Gina