(Pssst) <whispering> Errrrrr.. Art.... Ya better get ready to make a fast virtual get away 'cause you're gonna have a buncha P-Od Canadians chasing after ya for your comment on "the FOUR Canadian provinces." Last I heard, there was still SIX provinces in Canada! Do YOU know something the rest of us DON'T know? <wicked grin> Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Hirsch <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 12:47 PM Subject: Re: Support groups in Florida? >At 12:36 PM 11/20/98 ,Bonnie Cunningham wrote: >>FYI The number listed is no longer the number of the Parkinson Outreach >>Program (POP). The new number for POP is our number at NPF headquarters, >>1-800-327-4545. >> >Pity, Bonnie - that old number was so easy to remember. > >Regarding SUPPORT GROUPS, I intend to announce this to the list in a long >and boring post shortly, but why hide it now? When I started posting the >Forum fotos, I decided I needed links to other sites. So I started on what >I thought was a novel way to present links. My links work is not complete, >but some may still find it useful. > >On the way to completing the links work, I started to do the SUPPORT GROUP >page. I found that there were several lists of support groups in the U.S. >- mostly one list from APDA and another from NPF. They showed few support >groups in common. My own group, DAPS (Dallas Area Parkinsonism Society), >over 500 members strong, showed up on neither. Both lists contained lots >of clearly obvious errors. So I stopped doing the links work and started >putting support groups into a useable form. > >At this writing, I have completed the first go-round on all states except >New York and Ohio; these should be finished this weekend. I'll try to >proof it a bit more. I'll be looking at PDF lists and adding in Dale >Severance's work as it becomes available. I think that despite my poor >Parkinson-affected typing, there are many fewer errors in my tables than in >my source material, and it is more comprehensive, too. So there's no >reason you couldn't be using it now. > >HOW DO YOU FIND IT? > >Go to my web site - see my signature below - and click on links. When the >links page comes up, scroll down to Organizations and click on Support >groups. Scroll down on the page to find and choose the state listings. > >HELP! > >Please help me find errors, omissions, misspellings, the whole nine yards. >There must be more support groups like mine which are missing because they >have not affiliated with NPF or APDA. Many meeting times are missing. >Others may have changed. There must be support groups outside of the U.S. >and four provinces of Canada. And there might easily be hundreds of >support groups where the contact name (and phone number) was (were) correct >last year but is (are) wrong today. If you find anything like that, >please e-mail me. > >In the same vein - any suggestions for the rest of the web site would be >appreciated too. > >.Thanks, > >Art >________________________________________________________________ > > Arthur Hirsch {} [log in to unmask] {} Lewisville, TX {} 972-434-2377 > (nickname on instant mail, ICQ, and chat programs is cutterson) >________________________________________________________________ > > PAN Forum, other photos, and my approach to links: > http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/farley/817/ >________________________________________________________________ >