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Hi listfriends, After a long holiday, with my kids I spend some time to get things running. Slowly I am picking up other things, such as the list. I had it down to 3800 messages, now it is 6150 again, after filtering the non pd out of it and a lot of other known subjects. I will start trying to keep track with the now a days incoming messages. I made half month files of the old messages and will try to work back (I stay optimistic and i will not comment on it in public, but if necessary in private.. My health is great. The heat has slowed down my physical activities, but after my surgery, now 10 weeks ago, I feel still very good:) No more dyskenesia, I do go off, but that is more because I use to little meds. I just forget to take them, I am so good that I am too busy to think about it. I am almost a normal person. Almost, because I will never be a "normal" person. Maybe I should re-introduce myself to the list, there are so many new names on the list. They probably don't know who I am. On the other hand, why should I inform them about me? I am not contributing to this list and doing nothing special. Oh yeah, I am doing a few things, and I will do some more in the future. I was born in 1949 in Zandvoort. That is in the Netherlands, so that makes me Dutch. Yes, I have a slight accent. In 1990 I was diagnosed with PD. In 1993 I was one of the founders and the initiator of the yoppers in Holland. We had many contacts in Europe and visited our (my) friends regurlaly in France, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and England. In 1994 (Petersborough, England), 1996 (Leverkusen, Germany) and 1997 I visited the European meetings of the young onset patients. This year I will join the European meeting in Holland (october 15 - 17). I was chairman of the Dutch young onset group :"yoppers". Young and full of ideas, I worked hard to get things establized. Edited the yoppress, started with regional and national meetings and the PC=2 project. I stood at sore toes and founf out it was better to quit and I left the yoppers in good hands. In december 95 I started building the Parkinson Information Bank Internatonal, with a very good busisness plan, but I didn't get the cooperation I needed and because of lack of money ( it cost me about $15,000) I had to quit. The European meeting for a computer working group was initiated by me, and the EPDA took advantage of that. I have some knowledge about computers and software and am building some homepages now. One of them will be with info about the "28 hours bowling for the search for the cause and the cure for PD". I will break at october 29 - 30 the worldrecord bowling. I hope to raise $10,000 during that attempt. I have been 3 times at the PAN forum and have given presentations at a congres in Toronto and at the last euro meeting in Denmark. I have written a number of poems about PD. titels :the beeper, brain cells, cried, europoem, fighthing, fromload, IF, morning, muhammad ali, new brain, optimism, on off, pdpoetry, prisoner, she is coming, the Udall Bill, walk don't walk and about a hundred other poems. So this is in a very short way my activities so far. I hope to meet you all one of these days. Kees (pronounced as in case) Paap