Marjorie, >Does anyone else find it harder to face things, >or am I just becoming too soft for my own good ,in my dotage? > 4 or 5 years ago (7-8 years into diagnosed PD) I wept with my children as we buried a much loved family cat which had been run over in the road. 28 years ago as a young man of 21 I took my very sick bitza (i.e. mongrel) to the Vet to have him put down. On the way home I had to pull the car over to the side of the road as I was crying so hard that I could no longer drive. Surely the death of a loved pet is a legitimate occasion for sorrow - PD or no PD. Dennis. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 49/dx 37/ onset 32 "I am in the hands of the unknown God, he is breaking me down to his own oblivion to send me forth on a new morning, a new man." (D.H. Lawrence) [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++