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hi all At 09:10 1999/06/04 EDT, jim wrote: >Group - >Last month The Providence (RI) Journal interviewed me >after I gave a speech to a nearby PD support group... jim's complete diary since the pig-cell implant surgery in september 1996 is now semi-permanently posted in the hole-in-the-head gang nook on the wwweb wwwinnebago at: Jim Finn: My Pig-Cell Implant Story: As Posted to the PIEnet <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/pienet/hithgang/hitjimf.html> jim has my deep admiration for his courage and his determination; jim's brain cells, however, are what really excite me [!!] as i told jim: > ... your brain's story needs to be told from the rooftops >in my humble opinion > >the past three years have been a bit of a roller coaster with pd >this new surgery and that old surgery ... >this new drug and that new drug ... > >and all the while >your brain has been quietly percolating away >growing new dopamine cells for some strange reason i have never felt deeply distressed by having parkinson's [that is, after getting over the initial ignorance-caused-fear] i have always felt that in terms of science, technology, and research 'the times they are a-changin' unrelentingly and irrevocably i feel that jim's surgery is an inspiring indicator of those changes and i also feel that this is only the beginning heck, who needs michael j. fox as a spokesman??? when we have our own james c. finn complete with pig! [ono another one!] your silly cyber-sis on a silly sunny friday morning janet janet paterson 52 now: 41 dx: 37 onset Mail address: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada Web-site: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ E-mail: [log in to unmask]