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hi all whew, now that that little excitement has been announced i can get back to replying to joe's real message At 17:00 1999/07/08 -0700, joe wrote: >Janet, >Thank you for composing and making available your excellent description of >Parkinson's disability. I am going to make several print-outs of your work >and send it to several members of my family who are not certain how >Parkinson's Disease affects people who have it. > Joe Thome thank you for those kind words, joe! the disability description was written with the social services bureaucracy in mind so it has a fairly blunt and tending to the negative slant it has been stripped of emotion for the same reason my post "what does 'off' mean?" might make an interesting counterpoint since it is intensely personal and emotion-oriented i happened to have posted both 'description' and 'off' recently and then felt i had to address the potential of 'scaring' a newcomer to us and to pd so i posted 'scary' as well i think it's important to look at all sides of the situation so i will post 'off' and 'scary' on my website next door to 'description' thanks for your message and here's hoping that you and your friends/colleagues haven't been infected! janet acting list mom janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>