 |
 |
hi all At 11:23 1999/08/28 -0400, joan wrote: >I am a relatively new member of the list..,and one of the 73 'leavers an >joiners' in the past month. I learned about the list while cleaning my >livingroom (I found a newspaper article in the spring under my couch which >listed the list's URL). I subscribed to the list in August and lurked for a >week, astounded at the volume of mail coming in daily. I am part of two >other (non-PD) academic list serves and it was hard to keep up with the >volume...that and being new to PD info, I was intimidated by medical words I >didn't understand and by the personal jokes, etc. all of which left me >feeling 'out of the loop". So I unsubscribed for a number of days. >Then...while feeling that void again remembered... certain voices >(including Michel's and Janet's) were welcoming : in the end I did not know >where esle I could get the amount of PD info offered here. SO I >resubscribed, thinking " I will only read messages on weekends ". Now I >check it daily and print off relevant messages for my mother who revels in >the PD info. she did not have before. > >As an educator I am researching information technology and the nature of how >we use the internet. Does it change the nature of the way we think? >Perhaps 15 years ago none of us had an opportunity to participate in this >kind of global discussion. If any of us has to experience some aspect of >PD, we are blessed to have a cyber community to share it in. To see all >levels of debate on this list serve is healthy. It is a community evolving >as it goes, like any other. My concern is always with those who don't have >access to a computer or to the net. They are the ones who suffer is >isolation. If I could advocate for anything it would be to give every PWP a >computer with free internet access and every neurologist an on-line crash >course in PD designed by the very people who contribute to this list. > >All this in the last 22 days, simply because I decided to clean under my >couch! > >Serendipity? = coincidence? there are no coincidences janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset po box 171, almonte, ontario, canada, K0A 1A0 a new voice: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>