I wonder. I'm not sure i agree with you.. Of course i can only speak to my own feelings - but i think that PD allows me -or causes me (it depends on your point of vie w ) t o cry much more easily. so that when something moves me, i cry, where once i would have remained stoically stony faced . THis sounds sort of back to front. I dot mean like the PD mad, I means i was trained not to allow my emotions to show up too much on the surface - not to laugh to loud (bad manners), not to cry in public (embarrassing), not to reveal ones feelings. But now, the slightest thing will set off the tears - which kind of gives me licence to admit that i am feeling whatever - and thus i seem to be feeling more than i did, but actually i'm just showing tha ti'm feeling more than i did. I do but if i'm making m self clear - i'm not even sure I know what i'm getting at. Hilary BLue Bernard Shaw wrote: > > Janet I am so pleased that you are alright. Your poem did touch me but then > nowadays so much touches me that I did not consciously see before > Parkinon's. A piece of music .a child that is in distress, a poverty > stricken person anywhere in the world. My heart goes out to them. Is it > possibly all this Sinamet.? Does it cause our brains to react differently or > is it Old Age creeping up.? I tell everone that I meet, I will live to be a > hundred, Parkinson or no Parkinson. I want to see the civilisation jump in > the next thirty years. Perhaps I too will be able to go to Mars or even the > Moon. I have alwayss been an optimist so perhaps I will reach the 100 mark. > http://members.teleweb.at/bernard.shaw/poetry.html