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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.. 11. I asked my mail order pharmacy for a print out of the drugs, and their total cost for the past 12 monthss. I will append this to letters to legislators. Another disease lobby sent empty medicine bottles, less discreet than a letter, no? 12.I'm planning a Lilac Arboretum in memory of our daughter who died in January of this year. People could donate plants or money toward a PD Lilac Arboretum. The venue could be at hospitals which have PD research. Rochester, NY, a Center of Excellence is noted for its Lilacs. 13.Ask a local civic concert band to do a benefit performance for PD. I play in the Elkton, MD, civic band. The music selections might relate to aspects of PD. 14. Sign in a restaurant in Rochester, MN, near the Mayo Clinic; 'please Please don't talk about your operation; at least not while we are eating." A cartoon which depicted a clown making a telephone call, asking for advice. The cartoon was captioned, "What's the second best medicine?" Moral, humor as appropriate or inappropriate, as instructive or destructive, etc. 15. Please expand on this list with your imput. Share a suggestion that worked for you or your group. It's said that, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.