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John, It's a romantic picture you paint, when you say your observations have shown that people with Parkinson's Disease are "kind, loving, caring, overly grateful for small gestures and confine all their feelings of animosity to the disease itself." I don't know how much experience you personally have had around someone with Parkinson's Disease but it's different than mine. My wife, who has had Parkinson's Disease for nine years, suffers hallucinations, which at this point have not had their root cause determined, but she is not, as you describe kind, loving, caring, overly grateful for small gestures and confining of her feelings to the disease itself when she is in this state which is most of the time. Several other care givers I have spoken with have told me of similar experiences with their Parkinson's patient. From postings I have read on this list, it appears many people with Parkinsons's are as you describe, and that is wonderful, but, unfortunately not all are. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: John J. Strauss SET DIGESTS/INDEX <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:45 PM Subject: PWPs are a gental folk > To all you dear, dear people, I wish to place before you one observation I > have witnessed over the years of caregiver and support group activist. > > People with Parkinson's are kind, loving, caring, overly greatful for small > gestures and confine all > their feeelings of annimoscity to the disease itself. > They fight PD with every fibre of themselves and > blame no-one, God, themseves, neighbor, country > for their condition. > > I don't know if only "nice folks" get PD but I do knowl > those who have it display none of the behavior that brings discomfort to > others. > > At a rescent support group meeting a new member was intoducing himself >