>ps:what does every one else think? I have no idea which is worse, diabetes or PD. Given my druthers I'd pick being healthy over anything. Whilst I know it can have significance when funds are being allocated can't we leave the comparisons to the accountants. All that is established by the knowledge that PD is better to have than disorder A and worse to have than disorder B is our place in a pecking order no-one in their right minds would choose to be in. It doesn't stop us getting pecked 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/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++