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1.As a PWP how do I fully qualify for this group. Are there levels of membershp? 2.Dr. Varmus, address NIH, according to the New Yorker, bicycles to work each day. Why not a bicycle brigade to join him one morning? They could have his (r)ear for a few miles on the need for clinically focused research 3.Why not have a joint meeting with other local and regional Neurological Ssupport Groups? 4.Is it legal to hold a banner along some off the major roads around the NIHAU campus with a PD message? State police Montgomery County, MD, Bethesda, MD 5..Does each unit of PD support group have a banner? Last year Some in the NYC walk borrowed ours. 6. Did you ever see a plane pulling a PD banner along the Atlantic City shore. The high rollers gather there ? The strike there made yesterdays news. 7. A Neurologist suggested that a local support group might ask a research center if any items, e.g., a microscope, or personnel that might be underwritten by a support group. Concrete specificity is needed in goal making. 8.Ask your druggist(s) for an annual listing of the drugs, and the total aannual cost. Mail that to Congesspersons. The idea of a photo of a PWP surrounded by his drugs was excellent. Dr. Suess had a cartoon of that with a poem, "And this I take, if I should die before I awake" 9. When you call a Congressperson, or aide, first ask, "Are you familiar with pd and the Dual bill? Also, ask for the health aide. At certain times of the day the aides are not there, and you get a machine. 10. There is a movement in this country, long present in the Evangelical and Roman Catholic Churches in Germany. It has a Parish Nurse, or Visitor, who ministers to the spiritual and physical needs of the Church Comimunity. I welcome responses. Hurricane Floyd is outside, and I'm perforce inside..