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-----Original Message----- From: Giles <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Saturday, November 14, 1998 8:32 PM Subject: Society does not care.... >I grew up in a wheelchair in the 60's. >One thing I learned very quickly is that society and the world in genral >does not care about individuals. It is not picking on me because I'm in >a chair. It owes me nothing because society may have done something that >gave me a messed up wad of genetiic material. It was not going to make >any allowances because I was different. If anything, it wa going to >target me for early trip to oblivion much as a lion singles out the sick >animal in a herd. I descided that the only way to make it in this social > >jungle was to look that lion in the navel and spit. Then if the bluff >didn't work, pat him on the head before before he bit me. The surprise >would probably kill him. >So I've gone pretty much where I wanted and done pretty much what I >wanted. I've taken advantage of luck when it happened and made my own >way when it didn't. A lot of people helped me get as far as I've come >knowing they didn't owe me anything. I accepted thier help with thanks >in the same spirit. >Now I have PD. Nothing has changed. Society Still owes me zip and cares >even less. I help others when and where I can in the hopes they will do >the same for someone less fortunate than I. My wife and I are well aware >that I'm going to get worse. If you are like I am and have no extended >family with a long history of taking care of thier own. If you you are >like I and are not indepentantly wealthy. Then at this point in time the >future looks like an extended stay in a nursing home where nobody gives >a flying fart. >I am a realist. >I also live in the here and now and plan as I can for the future while >trying not to let it scare me stiff. > >Marvin Giles.