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john and list: So you're saying PD is the worse of the two? At 12:59 PM 12/18/98 EST, you wrote: >Tom, > >As a Type I, insulin-dependent diabetic for the past 29 years, and a PWP for >at least 7 (diagnosed 3.5 years), I have watched the discussion referenced in >your note with feelings similar to yours. I didn't want to comment on its >foolishness, but am prompted to thank you for doing so. > >The essential issue, it seems to me, is neither disease itself, but rather how >it affects a given indivdual; and there are such wide-ranging differences in >the impact of each. I can tesitify, for anyone interested, that these >conditions (Type I Diabetes and Parkinsons), while unrelated, can interact >pretty vehemently in one individual who has both. In my case, the strains >emerging from PD threw my Diabetes (for the first time in 28 years, into wild >uncontrol and numerous, unpreventable, unpredictable insulin reactions over a >9-month period, one result of which was my determination to seek disability >status (i.e. to stop working full-time) -- and I am now awaiting the final >Social Security Disability claim response. > >Since I stopped working, I've (thankfully) regained excellent diabetic >control, even as my PD symptoms continue to worsen. > >Best regards, > >John Bachman > >