Dear Margie---you make so much sense--we can't afford to lose you! There
have been a couple of times when I, too, have felt like giving up on the
list---but since I have to take care of the CARElist also, that would be
fairly awkward. I agree that the recent "kefuffles", to quote Janet, have
indeed taken their toll, and we are still "a little tender and bruised",
to quote Margie. Let's all take a deep breath, count to (at least) 10
before hitting Reply, and hang in there together to battle the real
enemy---PD.
Margie wrote in part:
>Sorry for going on so long, but what I'm trying to say is I'm confident that
>each and everyone of us on this list has stresses and counts on this list for
>support to help us through these times. And each of us, I know, is trying to
>do the best he/she can to help other PWP by giving comfort, support, and
>hope, and also further the research toward the cure. Not one of us means to
>hurt another, yet we somehow do.
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>I guess we should consider that maybe we, as a group, suffered more from the
>recent disagreements about what was appropriate on the list than we realized,
>and I think we're all still a little "tender" and "bruised," perhaps.
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> Is it possible that it has just been a long, hot summer?
>
>I can say that each one who leaves will be a loss to the list, but I can't
>say that I will stick around much longer myself. I can't deal with the
>arguing among those I need and count on the most when it seems that no one
>else - friends, family - understands what it's like to live the life we lead,
>either as PWP or with PWP. I'm going to think about it for a few days and
>then decide.
>Margie Swindler cg Dick, 54/17
Camilla Flintermann Oxford,OH
http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm
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