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Murray, Don't make fun of farmers with your mouth full. Farmers can have PD too. Our father died from PD complications in 1994 a year after my brother was diagnosed. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Murray Charters <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 8:38 AM Subject: Re: biSTN results On 5 Oct 99 at 5:18, P&B Fahr wrote: > My brother had biSTN April 98. > > Before surgery he had to crawl around on his hands and > knees. > > Two weeks after surgery he was operating tractors and > other farm machinery planting corn and soybeans. > > Two months after surgery he was up on the house roof > doing carpenter work. > > If you asked him if he would do it again --- his answer > is YES. > > Except for the 30 minutes or so till meds kick in in the > morning you would be hardpressed to figure out he has an > advanced stage of PD. > > Paul > Thank you for sharing this encouraging news with us, this is just what I need to cheer me up as I slop my Corn Flakes. Imagine a million of us out plantin' corn and soybeans... why we could solve the world food shortages and bail out them farmers........ PD does affect the brain, doesn't it ........ murray [log in to unmask]