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My friend Barb & all: I have been thinking about what Barb wrote about rereading the article in Parade & especially the part about having to justify our disease and our problems to the world. I can say that from my point of view, it's our damn determination to keep a "Positive Mental Attitude" which on some days is all that gets me through. No wonder we're sending out the wrong signals! We all know that if we give up & give in to PD, we are sure to suffer mental anguish & despair, so we keep up the PMA as a coping mechanism. I can say that I have never met so many "quiet heroes" as I have since joining this list-even the vocal ones (I include myself) are so busy being determined to best this disease, that the world sees our PMA & assumes that we are doing fine. I don't know which is worse: struggling to get out of the car while someone chatters on about the weather or having them ask me if they can help-to which I'll always reply: "I can do it myself, thanks!" I guess what I really want them to do is hold out an arm & just yank without me having to admit that I need help. Ah, but that would be in a perfect world & in a perfect there wouldn't be PD...or insensitivity! So, on goes my PMA & out I go to face another day! Joan Snyder (47/10/8) <[log in to unmask]> Peoria,IL "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm