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At 23:05 1999/07/08 -0400, hilary wrote: >Janeaet, Joe and anybody else who is interested > >I am intrigued that how I feel after 26 years with this >disease so interests so many people... i think it's the door opening on things that have been hidden for so long hiding PD symptoms out of shame and anger leads and has led to the ignorance and lack of PD awareness that we are frustrated by admitting to all these 'weaknesses' in public is very difficult for some people but i think it's probably an important part of accepting i.e. acknowledging the hard fact of having PD by doing so you are exhibiting the same courage and generosity as michael j. fox, donald f. mckinley, james c. finn, et al >I have also had a number of requests for the list of my >symptoms as I prepared it originally to go with my Social >Security application. Janet's revamped version of it is much >more professional, which is why I used it on my appsication. >Which I sent iin last week.... > >I hope that this litle flurry of attention does not >negatively impact my application. > >Hilary Blue (50/33/24) oooooh just let 'em try! your application is blunt, truthful and realistic they want to know that you can't do the work and why we don't like admitting to our frailties but this is not the time to 'soften the blow' or 'make nice' bureaucracy tends to run smoothly on 'facts, ma'am, just the facts' and that's what we've given them yours in staunchity janet 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]>