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I LOVE YOU JOAN!!! SANDY ----- Original Message ----- From: Stan or Joan Snyder <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 11:39 AM Subject: PD-PC or NPC > ENOUGH ALREADY! Dennis, that you so very much for coming to my > defence-that hasn't happened since I was in 2nd grade and never with > such caring & generousity of spirit. Sandy, Janice, Bob & Don (IYQ-all!) > so very much--but the time has come for me defend my own words...I've > said it before & I'lll say it again: PD is not for wimps; I do not hide > the fact that I'm a drooling, falling, shaking, shot-out-of-a-cannon, > bouncing around like a pinball on acid and frozen like potted plants > person with parkinson's. Maybe you aren't to that stage yet, but I am. > I'm not crying or whining-just stating facts. I hope & pray like crazy > that you never get this stage but believe me-it's out here & it's real! > Janet, I am the one who said that I wasn't ever going to post to the > list again because it seems like everytime I do, my words are taken and > disected and interpereted and given an entirely different spin & it > seems like to much energy to go back and fix the spin. My kids went back > to school today, my 11 yr. old daughter is sick, I just had to pick my > butt up after sprawling face first outside a coffee house in the pouring > rain, I'm looking at 48 in a few weeks and all I want for my birthday is > one of those thingys to make your toilet seat higher in the air, I sleep > in a lift chair rather than w/ my wonderful husband so that he can get > some sleep. Believe me, I am not whining-nobody promised me a rose > garden and I sure as heck believe that I'm blessed in a thousand other > ways-there are some days when I am truly the happiest person on earth. > So, > please don't feel sorry for me; just don't make believe that's it's all > make believe. I have hope and I have a wonderfully positive attitude > but I am a realist at this stage of the game-please don't make me > anything that I'm not. > You know what tho...?? After meeting so many of the wonderful people in > person-it gets personal. I'm done-I've finished-I've had my say. Thank > you. > > > Joan E. Snyder 47/9 > [log in to unmask] > <http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm> > "As if you could kill time without hurting eternity" > Henry David Thoreau